- All sections
- A - Human necessities
- A61B - Diagnosis; surgery; identification
- A61B 10/02 - Instruments for taking cell samples or for biopsy
Patent holdings for IPC class A61B 10/02
Total number of patents in this class: 4016
10-year publication summary
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416
|
434
|
397
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482
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408
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383
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396
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387
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267
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67
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| 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
Principal owners for this class
| Owner |
All patents
|
This class
|
|---|---|---|
| Devicor Medical Products, Inc. | 435 |
236 |
| Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. | 8794 |
117 |
| Covidien LP | 10647 |
81 |
| Hologic, Inc. | 1047 |
79 |
| Koninklijke Philips N.V. | 22975 |
70 |
| Cook Medical Technologies LLC | 3369 |
66 |
| C. R. Bard, Inc. | 1765 |
57 |
| Merit Medical Systems, Inc. | 981 |
52 |
| Olympus Corporation | 13667 |
44 |
| Transmed7, LLC | 71 |
44 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 422 |
39 |
| SenoRx, Inc. | 107 |
39 |
| C.R. Bard, Inc. | 718 |
38 |
| The Johns Hopkins University | 5377 |
36 |
| The General Hospital Corporation | 4517 |
36 |
| Teleflex Life Sciences LLC | 458 |
36 |
| Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. | 3616 |
35 |
| FUJIFILM Corporation | 27102 |
34 |
| Micromass UK Limited | 1121 |
30 |
| Nico Corporation | 160 |
30 |
| Other owners | 2817 |