A61M 27/002
Implant devices for drainage of body fluids from one part of the
Official title: {Implant devices for drainage of body fluids from one part of the body to another (intraocular A61F9/00781; middle ear A61F11/202)}
A61M27/002 (Implant devices for drainage of body fluids from one part of the) appears on 1,943 US grants and 2,495 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61M- Granted patents
- 1,943
- Published applications
- 2,495
- Assignees
- 761
- Inventors
- 3,093
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 2024 | 106 | 139 |
| 2025 | 108 | 137 |
| 2026 | 74 | 87 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Adjustable flow glaucoma shunts and associated systems and methods6 Oct 2026US 12,751,862 B2Shifamed Holdings, LLC
- System and method for controlling CSF flow and managing intracranial pressure6 Oct 2026US 12,752,090 B2EnClear Therapies, Inc.
- 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.
- Dynamically controlled cerebrospinal fluid shunt29 Sep 2026US 12,746,377 B2Oaya, Inc.
- Measuring intracranial pressure using a cerebrospinal fluid shunt device8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305967 A1Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
- Venticular Shunt System8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306807 A1Queen's University at Kingston
- Integrated external ventricular drainage and intracranial electroencephalography monitoring device8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306808 A1
- Cerebrospinal fluid shunt1 Oct 2026US 2026/0295224 A1Azygos Vascular, Inc.
- Medical devices for shunts, occluders, fenestrations and related systems and methods17 Sep 2026US 2026/0273242 A1W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Device and method to measure and communicate body parameters1,630US 6,731,976 B2Medtronic, Inc. · 2004
- Material delivery device and method of using the same1,075US 6,053,899 ASciMed Life Systems, Inc. · 2000
- Rotate-to-advance catheterization system1,027US 9,907,456 B2Olympus Corporation · 2018
- Method for the treatment of glaucoma415US 5,092,837 A1992
- Glaucoma implant408US 5,178,604 AIovision, Inc. · 1993