A61F 2/86
Stents in a form characterised by the wire-like elements
Official title: Stents in a form characterised by the wire-like elements; Stents in the form characterised by a net-like or mesh-like structure
A61F2/86 (Stents in a form characterised by the wire-like elements) appears on 8,366 US grants and 10,740 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61F- Granted patents
- 8,366
- Published applications
- 10,740
- Assignees
- 1,844
- Inventors
- 8,628
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 1 | 0 |
| 1977 | 0 | 0 |
| 1978 | 0 | 0 |
| 1979 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980 | 1 | 0 |
| 1981 | 1 | 0 |
| 1982 | 0 | 0 |
| 1983 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1997 | 114 | 0 |
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| 2000 | 221 | 0 |
| 2001 | 265 | 130 |
| 2002 | 261 | 413 |
| 2003 | 303 | 393 |
| 2004 | 218 | 557 |
| 2005 | 180 | 504 |
| 2006 | 195 | 509 |
| 2007 | 171 | 557 |
| 2008 | 153 | 529 |
| 2009 | 163 | 454 |
| 2010 | 307 | 464 |
| 2011 | 349 | 444 |
| 2012 | 361 | 457 |
| 2013 | 367 | 423 |
| 2014 | 446 | 499 |
| 2015 | 359 | 391 |
| 2016 | 381 | 451 |
| 2017 | 394 | 462 |
| 2018 | 324 | 411 |
| 2019 | 409 | 429 |
| 2020 | 374 | 423 |
| 2021 | 295 | 331 |
| 2022 | 272 | 339 |
| 2023 | 257 | 327 |
| 2024 | 249 | 320 |
| 2025 | 233 | 326 |
| 2026 | 136 | 197 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Uncaging stent6 Oct 2026US 12,751,844 B2Elixir Medical Corporation
- Controlled tubing expansion and surface engineering6 Oct 2026US 12,752,470 B1Zeus Co., Ltd.
- Systems and methods for making encapsulated hourglass shaped stents29 Sep 2026US 12,746,110 B2V-Wave Ltd.
- Implantable expandable structures for treating small vessels29 Sep 2026US 12,746,136 B2Covidien LP
- Cerebral stent22 Sep 2026US 12,740,878 B2Intressa Vascular S.A.
- Stent and method for use thereof8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306285 A1
- Crimping method and crimping device for a tubular stent, and implantable device1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294654 A1Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Stent alignment during treatment of a bifurcation1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294657 A1Advanced Bifurcation Systems Inc.
- End to end anastomotic connector24 Sep 2026US 2026/0283617 A1Phraxis, Inc.
- Prosthetic cardiac valve devices, systems, and methods24 Sep 2026US 2026/0283824 A1Shifamed Holdings, LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Expandable intraluminal graft, and method and apparatus for implanting an expandable intraluminal graft3,751US 4,733,665 AExpandable Grafts Partnership · 1988
- Prosthesis comprising an expansible or contractile tubular body2,717US 4,655,771 AShepherd Patents S.A. · 1987
- Percutaneous placement valve stent2,220US 5,957,949 AWorld Medical Manufacturing Corporation · 1999
- Percutaneous endovascular stent and method for insertion thereof1,881US 4,580,568 ACook Incorporated · 1986
- Dilating and support apparatus with disease inhibitors and methods for use1,862US 6,450,989 B2Artemis Medical, Inc. · 2002