A61F 2002/91591
Locking connectors
Official title: {Locking connectors, e.g. using male-female connections}
A61F2002/91591 (Locking connectors) appears on 210 US grants and 275 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61F- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 275
- Assignees
- 75
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- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2024 | 4 | 6 |
| 2025 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026 | 3 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Uncaging stent6 Oct 2026US 12,751,844 B2Elixir Medical Corporation
- Uncaging stent14 Apr 2026US 12,599,490 B2Elixir Medical Corporation
- Prosthetic heart valves with expansion and locking assemblies6 Jan 2026US 12,514,700 B2Edwards Lifesciences Corporation
- Aspiration catheters with expandable distal tip3 Sep 2024US 12,076,504 B2Elixir Medical Corporation
- Adjustable endolumenal implant for reshaping the mitral valve annulus2 Jul 2024US 12,023,235 B2Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
- Prosthetic heart valves with expansion and locking assemblies26 Mar 2026US 2026/0083554 A1Edwards Lifesciences Corporation
- Intraluminal support structure and prosthetic valve for the same8 May 2025US 2025/0143874 A1Open Stent Solution SAS
- Uncaging stent6 Mar 2025US 2025/0073052 A1Elixir Medical Corporation
- Stent With Enhanced Deployment Characteristics14 Nov 2024US 2024/0374405 A1MicroVention, Inc.
- Advanced endovascular graft and delivery system3 Oct 2024US 2024/0325178 A1TriVascular, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Implant delivery system with interlock963US 6,623,518 B2ev3 Peripheral, Inc. · 2003
- Polymer link hybrid stent728US 7,455,687 B2Advanced Cardiovascular Systems, Inc. · 2008
- Expandable stent forming projecting barbs and method for deploying721US 5,591,197 AAdvanced Cardiovascular Systems, Inc. · 1997
- Implant delivery system with marker interlock619US 6,814,746 B2ev3 Peripheral, Inc. · 2004
- Intravascular stent with limited axial shrinkage573US 5,868,783 ANumed, Inc. · 1999