A61M 60/896
Having flexible or resilient parts
Official title: having flexible or resilient parts, e.g. flap valves
A61M60/896 (Having flexible or resilient parts) appears on 209 US grants and 233 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61M- Granted patents
- 209
- Published applications
- 233
- Assignees
- 108
- Inventors
- 351
- Latest grant
- 2 Jun 2026
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| 2024 | 15 | 12 |
| 2025 | 11 | 14 |
| 2026 | 2 | 8 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Impeller frame2 Jun 2026US 12,642,955 B2Magenta Medical Ltd.
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- Impeller and cage9 Dec 2025US 12,491,062 B2Magenta Medical Ltd.
- Linear cardiac assist pulsatile pump2 Dec 2025US 12,485,267 B2SummaCor, Inc.
- Pulsatile ventricular assist devices30 Sep 2025US 12,427,299 B1
- Circulatory assist device with multi-leaflet valve27 Aug 2026US 2026/0249072 A1CardiacBooster B.V.
- Linear cardiac assist pulsatile pump13 Aug 2026US 2026/0232987 A1SummaCor, Inc.
- System for attaching a heart valve to a heart prosthesis and heart prosthesis provided with an attachment system of this kind30 Jul 2026US 2026/0216491 A1Carmat
- Blood pump23 Jul 2026US 2026/0207924 A1ABIOMED, Inc.
- Circulatory assist device with vascular lumen sealing2 Jul 2026US 2026/0183533 A1CardiacBooster B.V.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and apparatus for in vivo heart valve decalcification1,130US 5,295,958 AShturman Cardiology Systems, Inc. · 1994
- Method and apparatus for in vivo heart valve decalcification1,026US 5,443,446 AShturman Cardiology Systems, Inc. · 1995
- High-frequency transvalvular axisymmetric blood pump407US 4,906,229 ANimbus Medical, Inc. · 1990
- Auxiliary artificial heart of the embedded-in-body type318US 5,275,580 ASun Medical Technology Research Corporation · 1994
- Arterial catheter means277US 4,705,507 A1987