- All sections
- A - Human necessities
- A61L - Methods or apparatus for sterilising materials or objects in general; disinfection, sterilisation or deodorisation of air; chemical aspects of bandages, dressings, absorbent pads or surgical articles; materials for bandages, dressings, absorbent pads or surgical articles
- A61L 15/26 - Macromolecular compounds obtained otherwise than by reactions only involving carbon-to-carbon unsaturated bonds; Derivatives thereof
Patent holdings for IPC class A61L 15/26
Total number of patents in this class: 866
10-year publication summary
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64
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97
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87
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87
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107
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96
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78
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63
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55
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16
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| 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
Principal owners for this class
| Owner |
All patents
|
This class
|
|---|---|---|
| The Procter & Gamble Company | 22178 |
43 |
| Solventum Intellectual Properties Company | 2681 |
31 |
| Mölnlycke Health Care AB | 543 |
28 |
| Bayer MaterialScience AG | 874 |
22 |
| Toray Industries, Inc. | 6652 |
21 |
| Ethicon, Inc. | 1310 |
18 |
| Kimberly-clark Worldwide, Inc. | 5854 |
17 |
| Smith & Nephew plc | 779 |
17 |
| Covestro Deutschland AG | 2429 |
12 |
| Tepha, Inc. | 233 |
12 |
| Bayer Intellectual Property GmbH | 2671 |
11 |
| 3m Innovative Properties Company | 18406 |
10 |
| Paul Hartmann AG | 771 |
10 |
| BSN medical GmbH | 403 |
9 |
| Nitto Denko Corporation | 7879 |
8 |
| Neodyne Biosciences, Inc. | 50 |
8 |
| Washington University | 1473 |
8 |
| Bayer Innovation GmbH | 47 |
7 |
| The Penn State Research Foundation | 1423 |
7 |
| Soft Health Technologies, LLC | 15 |
7 |
| Other owners | 560 |