- All sections
- A - Human necessities
- A61B - Diagnosis; surgery; identification
- A61B 18/00 - Surgical instruments, devices or methods for transferring non-mechanical forms of energy to or from the body
Patent holdings for IPC class A61B 18/00
Total number of patents in this class: 13632
10-year publication summary
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1397
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1373
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1637
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1622
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1704
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1357
|
989
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644
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433
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99
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| 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
Principal owners for this class
| Owner |
All patents
|
This class
|
|---|---|---|
| Covidien LP | 10647 |
1269 |
| Cilag GmbH International | 5813 |
888 |
| Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. | 8794 |
633 |
| Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd. | 1925 |
578 |
| Olympus Corporation | 13667 |
415 |
| Koninklijke Philips N.V. | 22975 |
245 |
| Gyrus ACMI, Inc. | 1071 |
235 |
| St. Jude Medical, Cardiology Division, Inc. | 1351 |
225 |
| St. Jude Medical, Atrial Fibrillation Division, Inc. | 923 |
196 |
| Medtronic Ardian Luxembourg S.a.r.l. | 287 |
162 |
| Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. | 3616 |
147 |
| Medtronic CryoCath LP | 322 |
122 |
| Creo Medical Limited | 383 |
113 |
| Ethicon, LLC | 1367 |
110 |
| Kardium Inc. | 193 |
107 |
| ERBE Elektromedizin GmbH | 458 |
105 |
| Medtronic, Inc. | 9964 |
85 |
| Minerva Surgical, Inc. | 158 |
71 |
| Olympus Winter & Ibe GmbH | 620 |
71 |
| Olympus Medical Systems Corp. | 1661 |
70 |
| Other owners | 7785 |