- All sections
- A - Human necessities
- A61B - Diagnosis; surgery; identification
- A61B 18/12 - Surgical instruments, devices or methods for transferring non-mechanical forms of energy to or from the body by heating by passing a current through the tissue to be heated, e.g. high-frequency current
Patent holdings for IPC class A61B 18/12
Total number of patents in this class: 6072
10-year publication summary
|
515
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526
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650
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530
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710
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632
|
577
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519
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412
|
113
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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 |
640 |
| Cilag GmbH International | 5813 |
557 |
| Olympus Corporation | 13667 |
313 |
| Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd. | 1925 |
218 |
| Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. | 8794 |
177 |
| Gyrus ACMI, Inc. | 1071 |
121 |
| Ethicon, LLC | 1367 |
102 |
| Creo Medical Limited | 383 |
99 |
| Olympus Winter & Ibe GmbH | 620 |
92 |
| ERBE Elektromedizin GmbH | 458 |
83 |
| Medtronic, Inc. | 9964 |
75 |
| St. Jude Medical, Cardiology Division, Inc. | 1351 |
72 |
| Olympus Medical Systems Corp. | 1661 |
69 |
| Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. | 3616 |
61 |
| Koninklijke Philips N.V. | 22975 |
57 |
| Kardium Inc. | 193 |
57 |
| St. Jude Medical, Atrial Fibrillation Division, Inc. | 923 |
52 |
| Medtronic Advanced Energy LLC | 151 |
47 |
| Gyrus Medical Limited | 187 |
46 |
| Applied Medical Resources Corporation | 779 |
41 |
| Other owners | 3093 |