- All sections
- A - Human necessities
- A61B - Diagnosissurgeryidentification
- A61B 1/273 - 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 for the upper alimentary canal, e.g. oesophagoscopes, gastroscopes
Patent holdings for IPC class A61B 1/273
Total number of patents in this class: 840
10-year publication summary
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55
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76
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75
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84
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103
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87
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68
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79
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49
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| 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
Principal owners for this class
| Owner |
All patents
|
This class
|
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. | 11294 |
68 |
| Olympus Corporation | 12907 |
53 |
| FUJIFILM Corporation | 30689 |
31 |
| Cook Medical Technologies LLC | 3196 |
25 |
| Micromass UK Limited | 1126 |
23 |
| Auris Health, Inc. | 1410 |
23 |
| Gyrus ACMI, Inc. | 1300 |
17 |
| Kirk Promotion Ltd. | 149 |
17 |
| Siemens AG | 23956 |
15 |
| Olympus Medical Systems Corp. | 1982 |
15 |
| GI Scientific, LLC | 75 |
11 |
| Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. | 4450 |
9 |
| Envue Medical Holdings, Corp. | 37 |
9 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 10305 |
8 |
| Endosound, Inc. | 23 |
8 |
| Covidien LP | 10704 |
7 |
| Koninklijke Philips N.V. | 26042 |
7 |
| Hoya Corporation | 2688 |
7 |
| The Johns Hopkins University | 5938 |
7 |
| The Regents of the University of Colorado, a body corporate | 2846 |
7 |
| Other owners | 473 |