A61F 2002/072
Encapsulated stents
Official title: {Encapsulated stents, e.g. wire or whole stent embedded in lining}
A61F2002/072 (Encapsulated stents) appears on 869 US grants and 1,049 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61F- Granted patents
- 869
- Published applications
- 1,049
- Assignees
- 299
- Inventors
- 1,354
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 2024 | 22 | 25 |
| 2025 | 25 | 35 |
| 2026 | 17 | 14 |
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 kit, medical system, and covering device for the treatment of aneurysms15 Sep 2026US 12,733,936 B2Acandis GmbH & Co. KG
- Flow restricting stent-graft8 Sep 2026US 12,727,987 B2Aorto Medical LLC.
- Medical device for anastomosis18 Aug 2026US 12,708,366 B2Xeltis AG
- Methods and devices for percutaneous implantation of arterio-venous grafts11 Aug 2026US 12,702,742 B2Vascular Access Technologies, Inc.
- Prophylactic system and support structure for an aneurysm8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306244 A1Life Seal Vascular, Inc.
- Systems and Methods for an Endoluminal Prosthesis having a Constrictive Sleeve Member24 Sep 2026US 2026/0283779 A1Angiomed GmbH & Co. Medizintechnik KG
- Thermoformed polymeric valved conduits for heart valve applications27 Aug 2026US 2026/0248609 A1Colorado State University Research Foundation
- Branch endoprosthetic systems, devices, and method6 Aug 2026US 2026/0224347 A1W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.
- Covered stent6 Aug 2026US 2026/0224379 A1BCM Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Medical treatment of a diseased anatomical duct1,487US 6,248,116 B1B. Braun Celsa · 2001
- Expandable intraluminal graft, and method and apparatus for implanting an expandable intraluminal graft1,228US 5,102,417 AExpandable Grafts Partnership · 1992
- Prosthetic devices including elastin or elastin-based materials1,098US 5,990,379 AKenton W. Gregory & Sisters of Providence · 1999
- Percutaneous stent assembly1,016US 5,282,824 ACook Incorporated · 1994
- Device for application in blood vessels or other difficultly accessible locations and its use900US 4,553,545 AMedinvent S.A. · 1985