- All sections
- A - Human necessities
- A61B - Diagnosissurgeryidentification
- A61B 17/12 - Surgical instruments, devices or methods for ligaturing or otherwise compressing tubular parts of the body, e.g. blood vessels or umbilical cord
Patent holdings for IPC class A61B 17/12
Total number of patents in this class: 6964
10-year publication summary
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541
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565
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547
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687
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660
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649
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595
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587
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543
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455
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| 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
Principal owners for this class
| Owner |
All patents
|
This class
|
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. | 10342 |
575 |
| Covidien LP | 10666 |
414 |
| MicroVention, Inc. | 622 |
199 |
| Depuy Synthes Products, LLC | 2792 |
144 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 2726 |
144 |
| Cook Medical Technologies LLC | 3227 |
143 |
| Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha | 5623 |
106 |
| Stryker Corporation | 5110 |
93 |
| St. Jude Medical, Cardiology Division, Inc. | 1551 |
86 |
| Edwards Lifesciences Corporation | 4786 |
75 |
| Lifetech Scientific (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. | 407 |
72 |
| Cilag GmbH International | 6271 |
66 |
| Coherex Medical, Inc. | 103 |
59 |
| AtriCure, Inc. | 347 |
57 |
| Stryker European Operations Holdings, LLC | 787 |
45 |
| Kaneka Corporation | 4614 |
38 |
| Clearstream Technologies Limited | 176 |
38 |
| Merit Medical Systems, Inc. | 1144 |
37 |
| Olympus Corporation | 13140 |
35 |
| Occlutech GmbH | 64 |
35 |
| Other owners | 4503 |