- All sections
- A - Human necessities
- A61B - Diagnosis; surgery; identification
- A61B 18/22 - Surgical instruments, devices or methods for transferring non-mechanical forms of energy to or from the body by applying electromagnetic radiation, e.g. microwaves using laser the beam being directed along or through a flexible conduit, e.g. an optical fibre; Hand-pieces therefor
Patent holdings for IPC class A61B 18/22
Total number of patents in this class: 1326
10-year publication summary
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120
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123
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143
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146
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144
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125
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114
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113
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96
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35
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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 |
127 |
| Katalyst Surgical, LLC | 126 |
75 |
| Lumenis Ltd. | 119 |
42 |
| Alcon, Inc. | 4899 |
38 |
| Covidien LP | 10647 |
36 |
| The Spectranetics Corporation | 228 |
27 |
| Gyrus ACMI, Inc. | 1071 |
20 |
| Procept Biorobotics Corporation | 100 |
18 |
| Koninklijke Philips N.V. | 22975 |
17 |
| Biolase, Inc. | 164 |
17 |
| The General Hospital Corporation | 4517 |
16 |
| IRIDEX Corporation | 114 |
16 |
| Medtronic Navigation, Inc. | 499 |
12 |
| Monteris Medical Corporation | 52 |
12 |
| Novartis AG | 11238 |
10 |
| biolitec Unternehmensbeteiligungs II AG | 72 |
10 |
| Cyclone Biosciences LLC | 27 |
10 |
| El.En. S.p.A. | 83 |
9 |
| Eximo Medical Ltd. | 28 |
9 |
| Illumigyn Ltd. | 23 |
9 |
| Other owners | 796 |