A61F 2/844
Folded prior to deployment
Official title: folded prior to deployment
A61F2/844 (Folded prior to deployment) appears on 705 US grants and 934 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61F- Granted patents
- 705
- Published applications
- 934
- Assignees
- 226
- Inventors
- 872
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 1 | 0 |
| 1997 | 2 | 0 |
| 1998 | 2 | 0 |
| 1999 | 7 | 0 |
| 2000 | 6 | 0 |
| 2001 | 2 | 3 |
| 2002 | 4 | 9 |
| 2003 | 6 | 11 |
| 2004 | 2 | 10 |
| 2005 | 3 | 10 |
| 2006 | 9 | 22 |
| 2007 | 1 | 19 |
| 2008 | 1 | 19 |
| 2009 | 5 | 24 |
| 2010 | 15 | 21 |
| 2011 | 7 | 38 |
| 2012 | 19 | 25 |
| 2013 | 20 | 37 |
| 2014 | 25 | 52 |
| 2015 | 44 | 46 |
| 2016 | 75 | 148 |
| 2017 | 56 | 75 |
| 2018 | 61 | 62 |
| 2019 | 81 | 63 |
| 2020 | 63 | 57 |
| 2021 | 52 | 35 |
| 2022 | 31 | 33 |
| 2023 | 32 | 36 |
| 2024 | 32 | 39 |
| 2025 | 28 | 29 |
| 2026 | 13 | 11 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Systems and methods for making encapsulated hourglass shaped stents29 Sep 2026US 12,746,110 B2V-Wave Ltd.
- Medical tubular body delivering device15 Sep 2026US 12,734,056 B2Kaneka Corporation
- Dilating device and method for prostatic urethra18 Aug 2026US 12,708,501 B2
- Methods for targeting a body passage to effect fluid flow18 Aug 2026US 12,708,503 B2LimFlow GmbH
- Device and method for compressing and loading a stent23 Jun 2026US 12,661,246 B2Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
- Scaffolds having a radiopaque marker and methods for attaching a marker to a scaffold17 Sep 2026US 2026/0272685 A1Abbott Cardiovascular Systems Inc.
- Balloon expandable polymer stent17 Sep 2026US 2026/0272686 A1Abbott Cardiovascular Systems Inc.
- Delivery apparatus for a prosthetic heart valve10 Sep 2026US 2026/0263217 A1Edwards Lifesciences Corporation
- Mixed-Frame Intraluminal Prosthesis and Methods Thereof21 May 2026US 2026/0137501 A1Becton, Dickinson and Company
- Devices and methods for cinching a side-delivered prosthetic heart valve for delivery and deployment in a native annulus30 Apr 2026US 2026/0114996 A1VDyne, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Stent valve and stent graft for percutaneous surgery1,267US 5,855,597 AIowa-India Investments Company Limited · 1999
- Limited expansion endoluminal prostheses and methods for their use845US 5,843,158 AMedtronic, Inc. · 1998
- Intraluminal vascular graft604US 5,693,088 A1997
- Cuffed endoluminal prosthesis545US 6,592,614 B2Medtronic AVE, Inc. · 2003
- Procedures for introducing stents and stent-grafts439US 5,873,906 AGore Enterprise Holdings, Inc. · 1999