- All sections
- A - Human necessities
- A61B - Diagnosissurgeryidentification
- A61B 18/12 - Surgical instruments, devices or methods for transferring non-mechanical forms of energy to or from the body by heating by passing a current through the tissue to be heated, e.g. high-frequency current
Patent holdings for IPC class A61B 18/12
Total number of patents in this class: 7027
10-year publication summary
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651
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531
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733
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657
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652
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587
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479
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488
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437
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175
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| 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
Principal owners for this class
| Owner |
All patents
|
This class
|
|---|---|---|
| Covidien LP | 10667 |
676 |
| Cilag GmbH International | 6391 |
673 |
| Olympus Corporation | 12998 |
315 |
| Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd. | 2227 |
256 |
| Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. | 11005 |
245 |
| Gyrus ACMI, Inc. | 1280 |
165 |
| Olympus Winter & Ibe GmbH | 710 |
113 |
| St. Jude Medical, Cardiology Division, Inc. | 1634 |
103 |
| Ethicon, LLC | 1367 |
102 |
| Creo Medical Limited | 323 |
94 |
| Medtronic, Inc. | 9729 |
93 |
| ERBE Elektromedizin GmbH | 455 |
86 |
| Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. | 4325 |
74 |
| Olympus Medical Systems Corp. | 1917 |
73 |
| Kardium Inc. | 214 |
64 |
| Medtronic Advanced Energy LLC | 163 |
63 |
| Koninklijke Philips N.V. | 25674 |
58 |
| St. Jude Medical, Atrial Fibrillation Division, Inc. | 855 |
53 |
| Applied Medical Resources Corporation | 795 |
53 |
| Medtronic Ireland Manufacturing Unlimited Company | 278 |
49 |
| Other owners | 3619 |