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| Class 623 | PROSTHESIS (I.E., ARTIFICIAL BODY MEMBERS), PARTS THEREOF, OR AIDS AND ACCESSORIES THEREFOR |
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![[List of Pre Grant Publications for class 623 subclass 1.1]](../as.gif) | ![[List of Patents for class 623 subclass 1.1]](../ps.gif) | 1.1 | ARTERIAL PROSTHESIS (I.E., BLOOD VESSEL) |
| | 1.11 |  Stent combined with surgical delivery system (e.g., surgical tools, delivery sheath, etc.) |
| | 1.13 | Stent in combination with graft |
| | 1.15 | Stent structure |
| | 1.16 |  Having multiple connected bodies |
| | 1.17 | Stent length remains constant with lateral expansion |
| | 1.18 | Having shape memory |
| | 1.2 | Self-expanding stent |
| | 1.21 | Formed inside natural blood vessel |
| | 1.22 | Helically wound |
| | 1.23 | Including means for graft delivery (e.g., delivery sheath, ties, threads, etc.) |
| | 1.24 | Including valve |
| | 1.27 | Having plurality of parallel lumens |
| | 1.28 | Having pleats |
| | 1.3 | Having variable diameter |
| | 1.32 | Having built-in reinforcement |
| | 1.34 | Having marker (e.g., color, radiopaque, etc.) |
| | 1.35 | Bifurcated |
| | 1.36 | With means to attach graft to natural blood vessel (e.g., hooks, etc.) |
| | 1.37 | Having angled cut (i.e., oblique cut) |
| | 1.38 | Absorbable in natural tissue |
| | 1.39 | Having pores |
| | 1.41 | Having living cell |
| | 1.42 | Drug delivery |
| | 1.44 | Having plural layers |
| | 1.49 | Made of synthetic material |
| | 2.1 | HEART VALVE |
| | 2.11 | Combined with surgical tool |
| | 2.12 | Flexible leaflet |
| | 2.2 | Having rigid or semirigid pivoting occluder |
| | 2.21 | Fixed cylindrical pin structured to permit only pivoting movement of occluder |
| | 2.22 | Annular support member includes projecting means for guiding occluder's pivoting motion |
| | 2.23 |  Strut projecting means |
| | 2.24 |  Strut projecting means extends through hole in occluder |
| | 2.25 | Strut projecting means cooperates with depression portion of occluder to guide pivoting movement |
| | 2.26 | Occluder also includes guiding projecting means |
| | 2.27 | Occluder includes projecting means defining pivoting axis |
| | 2.33 | Having particular geometry detail |
| | 2.34 | Having rigid or semirigid translating occluder |
| | 2.36 | Annuloplasty device |
| | 2.38 | Annular member for supporting artificial heart valve |
| | 2.39 | Rotationally adjustable relative to suture ring |
| | 2.4 | Having means for fixedly securing annular support member to sewing ring |
| | 2.41 | Sewing ring |
| | 2.42 | Specific material for heart valve |
| | 3.1 | CORPOREAL ARTIFICIAL HEART, HEART ASSIST (E.G., IMPLANTABLE BLOOD PUMP, ETC.), CONTROL REGULATOR, OR POWER SUPPLY THEREFOR, OR METHOD OF OPERATION THEREFOR |
| | 3.11 | Including electrical or magnetic means adjacent to flexible diaphragm or chamber to effect contraction thereto (e.g., electromagnet, shape memory material, etc.) |
| | 3.12 | Powered by muscle |
| | 3.13 | Having enclosed rotary member for directly impelling blood flow |
| | 3.14 | Blood flow along electromagnetic section of stator member |
| | 3.15 | Rotary member driven by flexible shaft (e.g., cable, etc.) |
| | 3.16 | Having flexible diaphragm or chamber |
| | 3.17 | Flexible diaphragm or chamber directly compressed by mechanical member |
| | 3.18 | Reciprocating mechanical member attached to rotary drive means |
| | 3.19 | Reciprocating mechanical member attached to reciprocating drive means |
| | 3.2 | Reciprocating mechanical member driven by pressurized working fluid |
| | 3.21 | Flexible chamber or diaphragm dirrectly compressed by pressurized working fluid |
| | 3.26 | Having connecting means to allow blood flow |
| | 3.27 | Including electrical power generating means |
| | 3.28 | Including condition responsive means |
| | 3.29 | Material characteristic |
| | 3.3 | Method of teaching use of artificial heart or part thereof |
| | 4.1 | EYE PROSTHESIS (E.G., LENS OR CORNEAL IMPLANT, OR ARTIFICIAL EYE, ETC.) |
| | 5.11 | Corneal implant |
| | 5.12 | Corneal ring |
| | 5.13 | Having hole |
| | 5.14 | Lens connected to distinct attachment means |
| | 5.15 | Having integral protrusion means for attaching lens to cornea |
| | 5.16 | Material characteristic of corneal implant |
| | 6.11 | Intraocular lens |
| | 6.12 | Combined with surgical tool |
| | 6.13 | Having fluid-filled chamber |
| | 6.14 | Lens body having through hole for pressure equalization |
| | 6.15 | Lens having spacers |
| | 6.16 | Having cellular growth inhibitors |
| | 6.17 | Having structure for blocking or reducing amount of light transmitted (e.g., glare reduction, etc.) |
| | 6.18 | Having means on lens to reduce overall dimension of lens for insertion into small incision |
| | 6.22 | Including mechanically or electrically activated means on lens to alter focal power of lens (e.g., electromagnet, material which is ablated by laser, etc.) |
| | 6.23 | Aspheric lens |
| | 6.25 | Fresnel lens |
| | 6.26 | Prismatic lens |
| | 6.27 | Lens having regions with different focusing powers (i.e., multifocal) |
| | 6.31 | Diffractive lens |
| | 6.32 | Multiple lens |
| | 6.37 | Focal power of lens can be continuously varied by movement of body part (e.g., head, eyes, ciliary muscles, etc.) |
| | 6.38 | Having supporting structure for lens |
| | 6.39 | Supporting structure conforms to shape of capsular bag |
| | 6.4 | Surrounding optic |
| | 6.43 | Specific supporting structure (e.g., haptic, plate, etc.) |
| | 6.44 | Plate |
| | 6.45 | Having means to temporarily stabilize haptic |
| | 6.46 | Haptic and optic junction |
| | 6.47 | Haptic includes notch |
| | 6.48 | Haptic has different color from optic |
| | 6.49 | Haptic has particular cross-sectional geometry |
| | 6.5 | Haptic is formed from multiple layers |
| | 6.51 | Having loop |
| | 6.52 | Four filaments |
| | 6.53 | Three filaments |
| | 6.54 | Two filaments |
| | 6.55 | One filament |
| | 6.56 | Material characteristic of lens |
| | 6.63 | Retina |
| | 6.64 | Globe |
| | 7 | BREAST PROSTHESIS |
| | 9 | LARYNX, TRACHEA, TRACHEOBRONCHIAL PROSTHESIS OR COMBINATION THEREOF |
| | 10 | EAR OR NOSE PROSTHESIS |
| | 11.11 | IMPLANTABLE PROSTHESIS |
| | 13.11 | Ligament or tendon |
| | 13.12 | For knee |
| | 13.13 | Including tension adjusting means |
| | 13.14 | Including ligament anchor means |
| | 13.15 | Including an outer sheath |
| | 13.17 | Including natural tissue |
| | 13.18 | Including bio-absorbable material |
| | 13.19 | In braided form |
| | 13.2 | Made from plural strands |
| | 14.11 | Vocal cord |
| | 14.12 | Meniscus |
| | 14.13 | Muscle (e.g., sphincter, etc.) |
| | 15.11 | Hair or skin |
| | 16.11 | Bone |
| | 17.11 | Spine bone |
| | 17.12 | Having a fluid filled chamber |
| | 17.13 | Having a spring |
| | 17.14 | Having ball and socket means |
| | 17.15 | Having opposed bone-plates which moves relative to one another |
| | 17.16 | Including spinal disc spacer between adjacent spine bones |
| | 17.17 | Jaw bone |
| | 17.18 | Facial bone |
| | 17.19 | Skull bone |
| | 18.11 | Joint bone |
| | 18.12 | With magnet |
| | 19.11 | Shoulder joint bone |
| | 20.11 | Elbow joint bone |
| | 20.14 | Knee joint bone |
| | 20.15 | Modular type |
| | 20.16 | Including bone augmentative means |
| | 20.17 | Including in-growth tissue promoting means |
| | 20.18 | Patellar bone |
| | 20.21 | Having member secured to femoral and tibial bones |
| | 20.22 |  Ball and socket joint |
| | 20.23 | Including roller bearing |
| | 20.24 | Constrained joint |
| | 20.25 |  Including telescoping means |
| | 20.26 | Including means to permit lateral rocking movement about a horizontal axis |
| | 20.27 | Including cam means to limit anterior and posterior movement |
| | 20.28 | Including an intermediate member |
| | 20.3 | Unicondylar |
| | 20.31 | Including lateral and medial condyles |
| | 20.32 | Tibial bone |
| | 20.35 | Femoral bone |
| | 21.11 | Wrist, hand (e.g., finger, etc.) |
| | 22.11 | Hip joint bone |
| | 22.12 | Combined with surgical tool |
| | 22.13 | Including lubricating fluid enclosure means |
| | 22.15 | Including acetabular cup and femoral head |
| | 22.21 | Acetabular cup |
| | 22.22 | Oblong |
| | 22.23 | Interfitted into a prepared natural acetabulum by force fitting |
| | 22.24 | And an inner insert liner cup |
| | 22.25 | Adjustable insert liner cup |
| | 22.26 | One cup includes flexible wall |
| | 22.27 | Circumferentially threaded acetabular outer cup |
| | 22.28 | Including locking means between cups |
| | 22.3 | Having flexible wall |
| | 22.31 | Acetabular cup outer surface is circumferentially threaded |
| | 22.32 | Acetabular cup outer surface includes integral anchoring means |
| | 22.33 | Mesh outer surface |
| | 22.34 | Cup includes closure means for closing anchoring hole means |
| | 22.35 | Cup includes cut-through hole to receive protruding anchoring means |
| | 22.38 | Outer surface of cup includes protruding means |
| | 22.39 | Cup secured to acetabulum by cement |
| | 22.4 | Total femoral bone (i.e., including joint head and femoral stem) |
| | 22.41 | Set of plural femoral securement members |
| | 22.42 | Modular type |
| | 22.43 | Stem includes protruding means projecting into a bore in joint head |
| | 22.44 | Bore in neck area of joint head |
| | 22.45 | Including an intermediate coupler between joint head and protruding means |
| | 22.46 | Including protruding means projects into a bore in femoral stem or neck |
| | 23.11 | Femoral joint head |
| | 23.15 | Femoral stem |
| | 23.16 | Having electrical means |
| | 23.17 | Having shock absorbing means |
| | 23.18 | Multi-stem |
| | 23.19 | Having a cement channel |
| | 23.21 | Having a collar |
| | 23.23 | Having intramedullary |
| | 23.24 | Having a stepped surface |
| | 23.25 | Having integral spacer |
| | 23.26 | Having anchoring means to attach artificial femoral stem to natural femoral bone |
| | 23.28 | Having augmentative means |
| | 23.29 | Having textured outer surface |
| | 23.32 | Having variable stiffness |
| | 23.34 | Composite stem |
| | 23.35 | Having particular geometry |
| | 23.36 | Coating surface |
| | 23.38 | Polished |
| | 23.39 | Total joint bone (i.e., including two connected joint bones) |
| | 23.4 | Ball and socket joint |
| | 23.41 | Including intermediate elastic joint component connecting two joint bones |
| | 23.42 | Joint head bone |
| | 23.43 | Cup-shaped |
| | 23.44 | Stem structure |
| | 23.47 | Adjustable |
| | 23.48 | Cement bone plug or bone canal positioning means |
| | 23.49 | Including electrical means to induce bone growth |
| | 23.5 | Having textured outer surface |
| | 23.51 | Composite bone |
| | 23.52 | Including an outer sheath |
| | 23.53 | Made of metal |
| | 23.56 | Ceramic |
| | 23.57 | Including bioactive coating |
| | 23.58 | Polymers |
| | 23.6 | Bone surface coating |
| | 23.61 | Bone composition |
| | 23.64 | Hollow or tubular part or organ (e.g., bladder, urethra, bronchi, bile duct, etc.) |
| | 23.65 | Bladder, kidney, lung, or stomach |
| | 23.66 | Urethra |
| | 23.67 | Inflatable |
| | 23.68 | Including a valve |
| | 23.69 | Helical |
| | 23.7 | Stent |
| | 23.71 | Material characteristic |
| | 23.72 | Tissue |
| | 23.75 | Having bio-absorbable component |
| | 23.76 | Having means to promote cellular attachment |
| | 24 | HAVING ELECTRICAL ACTUATOR |
| | 26 | HAVING FLUID ACTUATOR |
| | 27 | LEG |
| | 28 | Extension |
| | 30 | Torso actuated or controlled |
| | 31 | Torso attachment |
| | 32 | Suspender or attachment from natural leg |
| | 33 | Socket holder |
| | 38 | Adjustable shank or thigh |
| | 39 | Knee |
| | 47 | Ankle |
| | 53 | Foot |
| | 57 | ARM OR COMPONENT (E.G., ELBOW, WRIST, HAND, FINGER, ETC.) AND ACTUATOR OR CONNECTOR THEREFOR |
| | 58 | Torso supported and actuated |
| | 59 | Elbow |
| | 61 | Wrist |
| | 63 | Arm or torso initiated finger actuation |
| | 64 | Finger actuator embodied in simulated hand |
| | 65 | With article or article holder |
| | 66.1 | MISCELLANEOUS |
| CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS | ||
| | 900 | STENT FOR HEART VALVE |
| | 901 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING PROSTHETIC DEVICE |
| | 902 | METHOD OF IMPLANTING |
| | 909 | METHOD OR APPARATUS FOR ASSEMBLING PROSTHETIC |
| | 912 | METHOD OR APPARATUS FOR MEASURING OR TESTING PROSTHETIC |
| | 915 | METHOD OR APPARATUS FOR PREPARING BIOLOGICAL MATERIAL |
| | 920 | METHOD OR APPARATUS FOR PREPARING OR TREATING PROSTHETIC |
| | 924 | MATERIAL CHARACTERISTIC |
| FOREIGN ART COLLECTIONS | ||
| FOR000 | CLASS-RELATED FOREIGN DOCUMENTS |
| Any foreign patents or non-patent literature from subclasses that have been reclassified have been transferred directly to FOR Collections listed below. These Collections contain ONLY foreign patents or non-patent literature. The parenthetical references in the Collection titles refer to the abolished subclasses from which these Collections were derived. | ||
| FOR100 | ARTERIAL PROSTHESIS (E.G., BLOOD VESSEL, ETC.) (623/1) |
| FOR101 | HEART VALVE (623/2) |
| FOR102 | CORPOREAL ARTIFICIAL HEART, HEART ASSIST (E.G., IMPLANTABLE BLOOD PUMP, ETC.), CONTROL REGULATOR, OR POWER SUPPLY THEREFOR, OR METHOD OF OPERATION THEREFOR (623/3) |
| FOR103 | EYE PROSTHESIS (E.G., LENS OR CORNEAL IMPLANT, OR ARTIFICIAL EYE, ETC.) (623/4) |
| FOR106 | MISCELLANEOUS (623/66) |
| FOR107 | IMPLANTABLE PROSTHESIS (623/11) |
| FOR108 | Hollow or tubular part or organ (e.g., bladder, urether, bronchi, bile duct, etc.) (623/12) |
| FOR109 | Ligament or tendon (623/13) |
| FOR110 | Muscle (e.g., sphincter, etc.) (623/14) |
| FOR111 | Hair or skin (623/15) |
| FOR112 | Bone prosthesis (623/16) |
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