A61F 2210/0014
Particular material properties of prostheses classified in groups a61f2/00 - a61f2/26 or
Official title: using shape memory or superelastic materials, e.g. nitinol
A61F2210/0014 (Particular material properties of prostheses classified in groups a61f2/00 - a61f2/26 or) appears on 3,579 US grants and 4,323 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61F- Granted patents
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- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2025 | 183 | 194 |
| 2026 | 96 | 110 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Mitral repair and replacement devices and methods6 Oct 2026US 12,751,815 B2Mitral Valve Technologies Sarl
- Uncaging stent6 Oct 2026US 12,751,844 B2Elixir Medical Corporation
- Systems and methods for making encapsulated hourglass shaped stents29 Sep 2026US 12,746,110 B2V-Wave Ltd.
- Devices, systems, and methods for extracting a ureteral stent29 Sep 2026US 12,746,137 B2Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
- Tissue engineered vascular grafts29 Sep 2026US 12,746,309 B2Medtronic, Inc.
- Venous embolic protection filter8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306239 A1Koninklijke Philips N. V.
- Prophylactic system and support structure for an aneurysm8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306244 A1Life Seal Vascular, Inc.
- Devices for reducing cardiac valve regurgitation8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306257 A1Edwards Lifesciences Corporation
- Devices and methods for the treatment of heart valve insufficiencies8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306262 A1Valcare Medical, Inc.
- Valve delivery system including foreshortening compensator for improved positioning accuracy1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294625 A1Medtronic Cv Luxembourg S.A.R.L.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Devices and methods for performing a vascular anastomosis2,683US 5,695,504 AHeartport, Inc. · 1997
- Shape-memory surgical staple apparatus and method for use in surgical suturing2,372US 4,485,816 AAlchemia Limited · 1984
- Medical devices incorporating sim alloy elements2,338US 4,665,906 ARaychem Corporation · 1987
- Implantable prosthetic valve1,995US 6,730,118 B2Percutaneous Valve Technologies, Inc. · 2004
- Clip and osteosynthesis plate with dynamic compression and self-retention1,992US 5,246,443 A1993