- All sections
- A - Human necessities
- A61B - Diagnosissurgeryidentification
- A61B 18/02 - Surgical instruments, devices or methods for transferring non-mechanical forms of energy to or from the body by cooling, e.g. cryogenic techniques
Patent holdings for IPC class A61B 18/02
Total number of patents in this class: 3238
10-year publication summary
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215
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204
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236
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289
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253
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251
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203
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211
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218
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151
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| 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
Principal owners for this class
| Owner |
All patents
|
This class
|
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic CryoCath LP | 318 |
249 |
| Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. | 10345 |
119 |
| Medtronic Ardian Luxembourg S.a.r.l. | 262 |
100 |
| Medtronic Ireland Manufacturing Unlimited Company | 252 |
86 |
| Pacira Cryotech, Inc. | 87 |
70 |
| Aerin Medical, Inc. | 93 |
54 |
| Channel Medsystems, Inc. | 59 |
54 |
| Arrinex, Inc. | 58 |
48 |
| AtriCure, Inc. | 348 |
48 |
| Varian Medical Systems, Inc. | 863 |
45 |
| Adagio Medical, Inc. | 59 |
42 |
| Kardium Inc. | 213 |
42 |
| St. Jude Medical, Cardiology Division, Inc. | 1550 |
41 |
| Zeltiq Aesthetics, Inc. | 164 |
39 |
| Koninklijke Philips N.V. | 24932 |
38 |
| CSA Medical, Inc. | 44 |
36 |
| Medtronic Ablation Frontiers LLC | 132 |
32 |
| Medtronic, Inc. | 9815 |
31 |
| Autonomix Medical, Inc. | 90 |
31 |
| ERBE Elektromedizin GmbH | 460 |
31 |
| Other owners | 2002 |