A61F 2/243
Deployment by mechanical expansion
Official title: {Deployment by mechanical expansion}
A61F2/243 (Deployment by mechanical expansion) appears on 1,696 US grants and 2,471 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61F- Granted patents
- 1,696
- Published applications
- 2,471
- Assignees
- 339
- Inventors
- 1,930
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1994 | 1 | 0 |
| 1995 | 2 | 0 |
| 1996 | 3 | 0 |
| 1997 | 1 | 0 |
| 1998 | 6 | 0 |
| 1999 | 5 | 0 |
| 2000 | 1 | 0 |
| 2001 | 1 | 4 |
| 2002 | 4 | 7 |
| 2003 | 7 | 13 |
| 2004 | 4 | 14 |
| 2005 | 4 | 41 |
| 2006 | 9 | 27 |
| 2007 | 3 | 32 |
| 2008 | 11 | 35 |
| 2009 | 12 | 42 |
| 2010 | 24 | 38 |
| 2011 | 20 | 54 |
| 2012 | 32 | 68 |
| 2013 | 46 | 82 |
| 2014 | 65 | 117 |
| 2015 | 50 | 68 |
| 2016 | 105 | 118 |
| 2017 | 79 | 130 |
| 2018 | 77 | 148 |
| 2019 | 150 | 226 |
| 2020 | 166 | 195 |
| 2021 | 154 | 192 |
| 2022 | 145 | 158 |
| 2023 | 152 | 175 |
| 2024 | 134 | 204 |
| 2025 | 137 | 181 |
| 2026 | 86 | 102 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Balloon expandable interventional valve stent having inwardly-narrowed wing-spreading skirt6 Oct 2026US 12,751,819 B2Nanjing Saint Medical Technology Co., Ltd.
- Replacement heart valve system6 Oct 2026US 12,751,821 B2Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
- Heart valve prosthesis delivery system and method for delivery of heart valve prosthesis with introducer sheath6 Oct 2026US 12,751,825 B2JenaValve Technology, Inc.
- Transcatheter valve system and method for venous insufficiency29 Sep 2026US 12,746,124 B2enVVeno Medical Corporation
- Heart valve stents adapted for post-implant expansion22 Sep 2026US 12,740,858 B2Edwards Lifesciences Corporation
- Prosthetic valves with skirt support features8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306256 A1Edwards Lifesciences Corporation
- Devices for reducing cardiac valve regurgitation8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306257 A1Edwards Lifesciences Corporation
- Method for delivering a support member to a native heart valve8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306258 A1Edwards Lifesciences Corporation
- Method for inhibiting damage of leaflets when reducing a profile of a vascular prosthesis8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306286 A1MiRus LLC
- Removable volume indicator for syringe1 Oct 2026US 2026/0295223 A1Edwards Lifesciences Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Valve prothesis for implantation in the body and a catheter for implanting such valve prothesis2,468US 5,411,552 A1995
- Percutaneous placement valve stent2,220US 5,957,949 AWorld Medical Manufacturing Corporation · 1999
- Endoluminal cardiac and venous valve prostheses and methods of manufacture and delivery thereof2,213US 6,458,153 B1ABPS Venture One, Ltd. · 2002
- Implantable prosthetic valve1,995US 6,730,118 B2Percutaneous Valve Technologies, Inc. · 2004
- System and method for implanting cardiac valves1,909US 5,840,081 A1998