- All sections
- A - Human necessities
- A61B - Diagnosis; surgery; identification
- A61B 17/12 - Surgical instruments, devices or methods, e.g. tourniquets for ligaturing or otherwise compressing tubular parts of the body, e.g. blood vessels or umbilical cord
Patent holdings for IPC class A61B 17/12
Total number of patents in this class: 6296
10-year publication summary
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506
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571
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597
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572
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717
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694
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652
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585
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568
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178
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| 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
Principal owners for this class
| Owner |
All patents
|
This class
|
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. | 8794 |
462 |
| Covidien LP | 10647 |
392 |
| MicroVention, Inc. | 555 |
174 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 2600 |
143 |
| Depuy Synthes Products, LLC | 2880 |
142 |
| Cook Medical Technologies LLC | 3369 |
140 |
| Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha | 5216 |
88 |
| St. Jude Medical, Cardiology Division, Inc. | 1351 |
78 |
| Cilag GmbH International | 5813 |
65 |
| Lifetech Scientific (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. | 347 |
65 |
| Edwards Lifesciences Corporation | 4141 |
58 |
| Coherex Medical, Inc. | 98 |
53 |
| AtriCure, Inc. | 329 |
51 |
| Stryker Corporation | 3864 |
50 |
| Olympus Corporation | 13667 |
40 |
| Boston Scientific Limited | 906 |
36 |
| CVDevices, LLC | 166 |
36 |
| Stryker European Holdings III LLC | 672 |
33 |
| Clearstream Technologies Limited | 123 |
31 |
| Merit Medical Systems, Inc. | 981 |
31 |
| Other owners | 4128 |