- All sections
- A - Human necessities
- A61B - Diagnosis; surgery; identification
- A61B 18/02 - Surgical instruments, devices or methods for transferring non-mechanical forms of energy to or from the body by cooling, e.g. cryogenic techniques
Patent holdings for IPC class A61B 18/02
Total number of patents in this class: 2943
10-year publication summary
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259
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224
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217
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252
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296
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259
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246
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192
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195
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53
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| 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
Principal owners for this class
| Owner |
All patents
|
This class
|
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic CryoCath LP | 322 |
256 |
| Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. | 8794 |
115 |
| Medtronic Ardian Luxembourg S.a.r.l. | 287 |
105 |
| Pacira Cryotech, Inc. | 80 |
65 |
| Channel Medsystems, Inc. | 59 |
54 |
| Medtronic Ireland Manufacturing Unlimited Company | 154 |
47 |
| Adagio Medical, Inc. | 67 |
46 |
| Aerin Medical, Inc. | 82 |
45 |
| Arrinex, Inc. | 56 |
44 |
| Kardium Inc. | 193 |
40 |
| Koninklijke Philips N.V. | 22975 |
37 |
| AtriCure, Inc. | 329 |
36 |
| Varian Medical Systems, Inc. | 850 |
36 |
| CSA Medical, Inc. | 43 |
35 |
| Zeltiq Aesthetics, Inc. | 143 |
34 |
| Medtronic Ablation Frontiers LLC | 132 |
33 |
| St. Jude Medical, Cardiology Division, Inc. | 1351 |
33 |
| ERBE Elektromedizin GmbH | 458 |
29 |
| Covidien LP | 10647 |
27 |
| Medtronic, Inc. | 9964 |
27 |
| Other owners | 1799 |