- 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: 7150
10-year publication summary
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651
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531
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733
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658
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655
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594
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489
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493
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440
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285
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| 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
Principal owners for this class
| Owner |
All patents
|
This class
|
|---|---|---|
| Cilag GmbH International | 6425 |
685 |
| Covidien LP | 10667 |
681 |
| Olympus Corporation | 12929 |
316 |
| Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. | 11225 |
272 |
| Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd. | 2282 |
266 |
| Gyrus ACMI, Inc. | 1293 |
167 |
| Olympus Winter & Ibe GmbH | 719 |
115 |
| St. Jude Medical, Cardiology Division, Inc. | 1687 |
103 |
| Ethicon, LLC | 1367 |
102 |
| Creo Medical Limited | 325 |
95 |
| Medtronic, Inc. | 9800 |
93 |
| ERBE Elektromedizin GmbH | 464 |
91 |
| Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. | 4409 |
76 |
| Olympus Medical Systems Corp. | 1969 |
74 |
| Medtronic Advanced Energy LLC | 166 |
64 |
| Kardium Inc. | 212 |
62 |
| Koninklijke Philips N.V. | 25916 |
59 |
| Applied Medical Resources Corporation | 794 |
54 |
| St. Jude Medical, Atrial Fibrillation Division, Inc. | 848 |
53 |
| Medtronic Ireland Manufacturing Unlimited Company | 293 |
50 |
| Other owners | 3672 |