Patents
US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026
363 patents granted to the 5 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 Vivani Medical, Inc.’s names, not what it holds today.
Patents granted
363
356 utility, 7 design, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
none
Against 3 in 2024 and 3 in 2023
Applications published
132
2 of them in 2025
Names they are printed under
5
a former name, a subsidiary
By yearGrantedApplications published
'11'12'13'14'15'16'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
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 technology11
Pharmaceuticals5
Surface technology, coating1
Computer technology1
Audio-visual technology1
Semiconductors1
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name5 counted
Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. a former name
US, as the owner printed on each patent. 1 more under the same name are not counted (printed in CA)
45 publishedSecond Sight Medical Products, Inc. a former name
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
66 publishedNano Precision Medical, Inc. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
14 publishedCortigent, Inc. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
2 publishedNano Precision Medical, Inc. a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
5 published
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
| Granted | Patent | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Aug 27, 2024 | 12,071,516 | Polymeric stabilizing formulations | Pharmaceuticals | Nano Precision Medical, Inc. |
| Apr 16, 2024 | 11,957,898 | Implantable device for the brain | Medical technology | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. |
| Mar 19, 2024 | 11,931,453 | Drug delivery device | Pharmaceuticals | Nano Precision Medical, Inc. |
| Nov 14, 2023 | 11,813,453 | Visual cortical prosthesis | Medical technology | Cortigent, Inc. |
| Apr 11, 2023 | 11,627,664 | Flexible circuit electrode array and method of manufacturing the same | Audio-visual technology | Cortigent, Inc. |
| Apr 11, 2023 | 11,623,082 | Flexible circuit peripheral nerve stimulator with low profile hybrid assembly | Semiconductors | Cortigent, Inc. |
| Oct 25, 2022 | 11,478,430 | Implantable medical devices for extended release of therapeutic agents | Pharmaceuticals | Nano Precision Medical, Inc. |
| Jul 19, 2022 | 11,393,247 | Face detection tracking and recognition for a visual prosthesis | Computer technology | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. |
| Apr 12, 2022 | 11,298,266 | Depth filter for visual prostheses | Medical technology | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. |
| Feb 1, 2022 | 11,235,151 | Pattern detection and location in a processed image | Medical technology | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. |
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
| Published | Application | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Sep 18, 2025 | 2025/0288527 | DEVICES AND METHODS TO IMPROVE BIOAVAILABILITY OF THERAPEUTIC AGENTS | Pharmaceuticals | Nano Precision Medical, Inc. |
| Apr 10, 2025 | 2025/0114594 | Cortical Stimulator | Medical technology | Cortigent, Inc. |
| Sep 5, 2024 | 2024/0293673 | NEUROSTIMULATOR TO AID IN RECOVERY FROM STROKE OR OTHER LIMITATIONS IN HUMAN FUNCTION | Medical technology | Cortigent, Inc. |
| Jan 26, 2023 | 2023/0022463 | IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICES FOR EXTENDED RELEASE OF THERAPEUTIC AGENTS | Pharmaceuticals | Nano Precision Medical, Inc. |
| Jan 13, 2022 | 2022/0008345 | METHODS TO CONTROL THE RATE OF RELEASE OF THERAPEUTIC AGENTS FROM IMPLANTABLE DEVICES | Pharmaceuticals | Nano Precision Medical, Inc. |
| Dec 30, 2021 | 2021/0401735 | DRUG DELIVERY DEVICE | Pharmaceuticals | Nano Precision Medical, Inc. · patent 11,931,453 granted from it |
| Aug 12, 2021 | 2021/0246271 | POLYMERIC STABILIZING FORMULATIONS | Pharmaceuticals | Nano Precision Medical, Inc. · patent 12,071,516 granted from it |
| Oct 22, 2020 | 2020/0330394 | IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICES FOR EXTENDED RELEASE OF THERAPEUTIC AGENTS | Pharmaceuticals | Nano Precision Medical, Inc. · patent 11,478,430 granted from it |
| May 28, 2020 | 2020/0167547 | FACE DETECTION TRACKING AND RECOGNITION FOR A VISUAL PROSTHESIS | Computer technology | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. · patent 11,393,247 granted from it |
| May 14, 2020 | 2020/0147386 | VISUAL CORTICAL PROSTHESIS | Medical technology | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. · patent 11,813,453 granted from it |
What it applied for, 2024 to 2025: Medical technology 2 · Pharmaceuticals 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.