- All sections
- A - Human necessities
- A61B - Diagnosis; surgery; identification
- A61B 17/128 - 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 for applying or removing clamps or clips
Patent holdings for IPC class A61B 17/128
Total number of patents in this class: 1730
10-year publication summary
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128
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131
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114
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180
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292
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225
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192
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145
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143
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31
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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 |
236 |
| Covidien LP | 10647 |
213 |
| Cilag GmbH International | 5813 |
149 |
| Olympus Corporation | 13667 |
67 |
| AtriCure, Inc. | 329 |
55 |
| Edwards Lifesciences Corporation | 4141 |
39 |
| Aesculap AG | 1306 |
38 |
| Ethicon, LLC | 1367 |
34 |
| Cook Medical Technologies LLC | 3369 |
33 |
| Teleflex Medical Incorporated | 385 |
32 |
| Evalve, Inc. | 189 |
31 |
| Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. | 1629 |
28 |
| Intocare Medical Technology (Suzhou) Co., Ltd. | 52 |
22 |
| Boston Scientific Medical Device Limited | 646 |
21 |
| Gyrus ACMI, Inc. | 1071 |
19 |
| Abbott Cardiovascular Systems, Inc. | 1117 |
18 |
| Advanced Bariatric Technology, LLC | 30 |
17 |
| CONMED Corporation | 990 |
17 |
| Micro-tech (Nanjing) Co., Ltd. | 167 |
15 |
| RevMedica, Inc. | 29 |
14 |
| Other owners | 632 |