A61F 2/2436
Deployment by retracting a sheath
Official title: {Deployment by retracting a sheath}
A61F2/2436 (Deployment by retracting a sheath) appears on 2,275 US grants and 3,272 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61F- Granted patents
- 2,275
- Published applications
- 3,272
- Assignees
- 383
- Inventors
- 2,342
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2026 | 128 | 156 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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By later US patents
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- Implantable prosthetic valve1,995US 6,730,118 B2Percutaneous Valve Technologies, Inc. · 2004
- Prosthetic valve for transluminal delivery1,881US 7,018,406 B2Corevalve, S.A. · 2006