- All sections
- A - Human necessities
- A61B - Diagnosis; surgery; identification
- A61B 17/10 - Surgical instruments, devices or methods, e.g. tourniquets for closing wounds, or holding wounds closed, e.g. surgical staples; Accessories for use therewith for applying or removing wound clamps; Wound clamp magazines
Patent holdings for IPC class A61B 17/10
Total number of patents in this class: 2648
10-year publication summary
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287
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295
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292
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174
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346
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186
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171
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135
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80
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27
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| 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
Principal owners for this class
| Owner |
All patents
|
This class
|
|---|---|---|
| Cilag GmbH International | 5813 |
885 |
| Covidien LP | 10647 |
442 |
| Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. | 8794 |
133 |
| Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. | 1629 |
69 |
| Olympus Corporation | 13667 |
43 |
| Cook Medical Technologies LLC | 3369 |
37 |
| C. R. Bard, Inc. | 1765 |
37 |
| Teleflex Life Sciences LLC | 458 |
36 |
| Ethicon, Inc. | 1310 |
29 |
| EndoGastric Solutions, Inc. | 89 |
28 |
| Edwards Lifesciences Corporation | 4141 |
25 |
| USGI Medical, Inc. | 121 |
20 |
| AtriCure, Inc. | 329 |
18 |
| Tyco Healthcare Group LP | 343 |
17 |
| Ancora Heart, Inc. | 68 |
15 |
| Medtronic, Inc. | 9964 |
14 |
| Teleflex Medical Incorporated | 385 |
14 |
| Touchstone International Medical Science Co., Ltd. | 193 |
14 |
| RevMedica, Inc. | 29 |
14 |
| Rotation Medical, Inc. | 116 |
13 |
| Other owners | 745 |