Company Analysis

Edwards Lifesciences Corp (EW)

NYSE: EW · Orthopedic, Prosthetic & Surgical Appliances & Supplies · Irvine, CA · filing with the SEC since 1999
Grade7.2
◀ Past 7.6● Present 7.5▶ Future 6.3

Patents

US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026

1,681 patents granted to the 2 names below, as the owner printed on each patent when it was granted. A later sale, a lapse or an expiry is not read, so this is what was granted to Edwards Lifesciences Corp’s names, not what it holds today.

Patents granted
1,681
1,643 utility, 33 design, 5 reissue, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
169
Against 171 in 2024 and 137 in 2023
Applications published
2,388
335 of them in 2025
Names they are printed under
2
its own name
By yearGrantedApplications published
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Each pair is one calendar year. Applications are published about eighteen months after filing, so the newest years read low.
What they are aboutgrants since 2021
Medical technology706
Textile and paper machines6
Handling3
Measurement2
Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy1
Machine tools1
Other special machines1
Biotechnology1
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name2 counted
Edwards Lifesciences Corporation its own name
US, as the owner printed on each patent. 139 more under the same name are not counted (printed in GB, printed in CH, printed in SE)
1,681 granted
713 published
Edwards Lifesciences Corporation its own name
named as the applicant on its applications, in US. 22 more under the same name are not counted (printed in CH)
0 granted
1,675 published
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
GrantedPatentTitleFieldOwner as printed
Dec 30, 202512,509,807Automated heart valve manufacturingBiotechnologyEdwards Lifesciences Corporation
Dec 30, 202512,508,399Manufacture of steerable delivery devicesMedical technologyEdwards Lifesciences Corporation
Dec 30, 202512,508,129Cardiac valve replacementMedical technologyEdwards Lifesciences Corporation
Dec 23, 202512,502,276Inversion delivery device and method for a prosthesisMedical technologyEdwards Lifesciences Corporation
Dec 23, 202512,502,275Leaflet attachment configurations to the frames of prosthetic valvesMedical technologyEdwards Lifesciences Corporation
Dec 23, 202512,502,274Textiles and implantable medical devices using the sameTextile and paper machinesEdwards Lifesciences Corporation
Dec 23, 202512,502,273Perivalvular sealing for transcatheter heart valveMedical technologyEdwards Lifesciences Corporation
Dec 23, 202512,502,170Trigger-based tissue anchor deploymentMedical technologyEdwards Lifesciences Corporation
Dec 23, 202512,502,167Tissue remodeling systems and methodsMedical technologyEdwards Lifesciences Corporation
Dec 16, 2025D1,106,488Dry packaging for heart valveEdwards Lifesciences Corporation
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
PublishedApplicationTitleFieldOwner as printed
Dec 25, 20252025/0387611STROKE VOLUME IMPROVEMENT DEVICESMedical technologyEdwards Lifesciences Corporation
Dec 25, 20252025/0387246EXPANDABLE STENT DEVICES AND SYSTEMSMedical technologyEdwards Lifesciences Corporation
Dec 25, 20252025/0387227SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CRIMPING AND LOADING A PROSTHETIC HEART VALVEMedical technologyEdwards Lifesciences Corporation
Dec 25, 20252025/0387226APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MONITORING VALVE EXPANSIONMedical technologyEdwards Lifesciences Corporation
Dec 25, 20252025/0387225PROSTHETIC MEDICAL DEVICE DELIVERY APPARATUSMedical technologyEdwards Lifesciences Corporation
Dec 18, 20252025/0381032EXPANDABLE SHEATH FOR INTRODUCING AN ENDOVASCULAR DELIVERY DEVICE INTO A BODYMedical technologyEdwards Lifesciences Corporation
Dec 18, 20252025/0381030PROSTHETIC VALVED CONDUITS WITH MECHANICALLY COUPLED LEAFLETSMedical technologyEdwards Lifesciences Corporation
Dec 18, 20252025/0381029PROSTHETIC VALVES WITH APEX COVERINGSMedical technologyEdwards Lifesciences Corporation
Dec 18, 20252025/0380962TISSUE CUTTING TOOLMedical technologyEdwards Lifesciences Corporation
Dec 11, 20252025/0375599HELICAL NOSECONEMedical technologyEdwards Lifesciences Corporation
What it applied for, 2024 to 2025: Medical technology 624 · Textile and paper machines 5 · Computer technology 3 · Handling 1.

A patent is counted where the owner printed on it when it was granted carries the company’s own name, a former name, the name of a subsidiary its annual report lists, or its own name with a patent-holding phrase (Technology Licensing, Intellectual Property and the like), once the legal form, case and punctuation are set aside, and prints a country that name counts in. PatentsView’s data are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Source: PatentsView's granted patents and pre-grant publications, disambiguated, from the USPTO's Open Data Portal, through Dec 31, 2025, read Oct 27, 2026.

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