- All sections
- A - Human necessities
- A61B - Diagnosis; surgery; identification
- A61B 17/32 - Surgical cutting instruments
Patent holdings for IPC class A61B 17/32
Total number of patents in this class: 9968
10-year publication summary
|
849
|
880
|
1076
|
1013
|
1169
|
944
|
813
|
658
|
547
|
166
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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 |
1552 |
| Covidien LP | 10647 |
707 |
| Olympus Corporation | 13667 |
470 |
| Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. | 8794 |
233 |
| Ethicon, LLC | 1367 |
222 |
| Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. | 1629 |
155 |
| Stryker Corporation | 3864 |
140 |
| Gyrus ACMI, Inc. | 1071 |
131 |
| Medtronic Xomed, Inc. | 669 |
117 |
| Smith & Nephew, Inc. | 2685 |
107 |
| Medtronic, Inc. | 9964 |
79 |
| Alcon, Inc. | 4899 |
78 |
| Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha | 5216 |
69 |
| Nico Corporation | 160 |
63 |
| Relign Corporation | 97 |
62 |
| Arthrex, Inc. | 1201 |
57 |
| Depuy Synthes Products, LLC | 2880 |
55 |
| Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. | 3616 |
51 |
| Cook Medical Technologies LLC | 3369 |
49 |
| Interscope, Inc. | 69 |
49 |
| Other owners | 5522 |