- All sections
- A - Human necessities
- A61B - Diagnosis; surgery; identification
- A61B 1/05 - Instruments for performing medical examinations of the interior of cavities or tubes of the body by visual or photographical inspection, e.g. endoscopes; Illuminating arrangements therefor combined with photographic or television appliances characterised by the image sensor, e.g. camera, being in the distal end portion
Patent holdings for IPC class A61B 1/05
Total number of patents in this class: 3622
10-year publication summary
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275
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320
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393
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396
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465
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520
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456
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382
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346
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108
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| 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
Principal owners for this class
| Owner |
All patents
|
This class
|
|---|---|---|
| Olympus Corporation | 13667 |
559 |
| Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. | 3616 |
143 |
| Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. | 8794 |
131 |
| FUJIFILM Corporation | 27102 |
116 |
| Cilag GmbH International | 5813 |
104 |
| Ambu A/S | 420 |
79 |
| EndoChoice, Inc. | 183 |
71 |
| Depuy Synthes Products, LLC | 2880 |
58 |
| Covidien LP | 10647 |
57 |
| Hoya Corporation | 2822 |
54 |
| Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc. | 347 |
44 |
| Olympus Winter & Ibe GmbH | 620 |
39 |
| Karl STORZ SE & Co. KG | 1622 |
38 |
| Karl STORZ Imaging, Inc. | 229 |
37 |
| Evident Corporation | 1072 |
33 |
| Ethicon, LLC | 1367 |
32 |
| Gyrus ACMI, Inc. | 1071 |
30 |
| Auris Health, Inc. | 774 |
30 |
| Medos International SARL | 731 |
29 |
| Olympus Medical Systems Corp. | 1661 |
26 |
| Other owners | 1912 |