- All sections
- A - Human necessities
- A61B - Diagnosissurgeryidentification
- A61B 18/00 - Surgical instruments, devices or methods for transferring non-mechanical forms of energy to or from the body
Patent holdings for IPC class A61B 18/00
Total number of patents in this class: 16688
10-year publication summary
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1378
|
1640
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1631
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1763
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1519
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1391
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1008
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706
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1193
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942
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| 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
Principal owners for this class
| Owner |
All patents
|
This class
|
|---|---|---|
| Covidien LP | 10636 |
1404 |
| Cilag GmbH International | 6241 |
1070 |
| Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. | 10237 |
835 |
| Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd. | 2146 |
756 |
| Olympus Corporation | 13186 |
435 |
| Gyrus ACMI, Inc. | 1206 |
344 |
| St. Jude Medical, Cardiology Division, Inc. | 1520 |
309 |
| Koninklijke Philips N.V. | 24740 |
276 |
| Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. | 4038 |
219 |
| St. Jude Medical, Atrial Fibrillation Division, Inc. | 891 |
207 |
| Medtronic Ardian Luxembourg S.a.r.l. | 264 |
160 |
| Medtronic Ireland Manufacturing Unlimited Company | 241 |
144 |
| Medtronic CryoCath LP | 317 |
138 |
| Creo Medical Limited | 331 |
133 |
| Kardium Inc. | 211 |
130 |
| ERBE Elektromedizin GmbH | 457 |
117 |
| Medtronic, Inc. | 9799 |
115 |
| Ethicon, LLC | 1367 |
110 |
| Boston Scientific Medical Device Limited | 871 |
104 |
| Stryker Corporation | 5028 |
100 |
| Other owners | 9582 |