A61F 2230/0004
Rounded shapes
Official title: Rounded shapes, e.g. with rounded corners
A61F2230/0004 (Rounded shapes) appears on 5,903 US grants and 7,114 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61F- Granted patents
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- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2024 | 150 | 171 |
| 2025 | 159 | 204 |
| 2026 | 75 | 141 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Gender-specific mesh implant with barrier for inguinal hernia repair6 Oct 2026US 12,751,810 B2Hexagon Health, Inc.
- Uncaging stent6 Oct 2026US 12,751,844 B2Elixir Medical Corporation
- Lymph conduction system implant and method of using same29 Sep 2026US 12,746,109 B2Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.
- Systems and methods for making encapsulated hourglass shaped stents29 Sep 2026US 12,746,110 B2V-Wave Ltd.
- Implant including egg-shaped internal architecture, and methods22 Sep 2026US 12,740,870 B2
- Replacement prosthesis for auditory ossicle8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306252 A1Kyungpook National University Hospital
- Catheter with inflatable expansion tube structure8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306793 A1
- Gender-specific mesh implant with barrier for inguinal hernia repair1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294611 A1Sofradim Production
- Ventricular Control of Prosthetic Atrioventricular Valve1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294624 A1St. Jude Medical, Cardiology Division, Inc.
- Device, system, and method with an adaptive leaflet1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294626 A1Polares Medical Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Valve prothesis for implantation in the body and a catheter for implanting such valve prothesis2,468US 5,411,552 A1995
- System and method for implanting cardiac valves1,909US 5,840,081 A1998
- Valve prosthesis for implantation in the body1,826US 6,168,614 AHeartport, Inc. · 2001
- Drug releasing anastomosis devices and methods for treating anastomotic sites1,779US 7,108,701 B2Ethicon, Inc. · 2006
- Filter and filter insertion instrument1,711US 3,952,747 A1976