- All sections
- A - Human necessities
- A61B - Diagnosissurgeryidentification
- A61B 1/00 - Instruments for performing medical examinations of the interior of cavities or tubes of the body by visual or photographical inspection, e.g. endoscopesIlluminating arrangements therefor
Patent holdings for IPC class A61B 1/00
Total number of patents in this class: 24076
10-year publication summary
|
2072
|
1995
|
2175
|
2224
|
2160
|
1902
|
1777
|
1708
|
1680
|
843
|
| 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
Principal owners for this class
| Owner |
All patents
|
This class
|
|---|---|---|
| Olympus Corporation | 12942 |
4521 |
| Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. | 11120 |
1307 |
| FUJIFILM Corporation | 30512 |
1178 |
| Olympus Medical Systems Corp. | 1959 |
1000 |
| Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. | 4382 |
720 |
| Hoya Corporation | 2719 |
404 |
| Covidien LP | 10650 |
399 |
| Cilag GmbH International | 6409 |
346 |
| Karl STORZ SE & Co. KG | 1791 |
323 |
| Sony Corporation | 30208 |
317 |
| Ambu A/S | 482 |
289 |
| Olympus Winter & Ibe GmbH | 716 |
253 |
| Gyrus ACMI, Inc. | 1290 |
247 |
| Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc. | 385 |
228 |
| Auris Health, Inc. | 1380 |
223 |
| Align Technology, Inc. | 2283 |
191 |
| Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha | 5784 |
181 |
| Koninklijke Philips N.V. | 25832 |
168 |
| Stryker Corporation | 5337 |
162 |
| EndoChoice, Inc. | 183 |
137 |
| Other owners | 11482 |