- 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: 6932
10-year publication summary
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615
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510
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700
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628
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621
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559
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455
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476
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432
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79
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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 | 10660 |
672 |
| Cilag GmbH International | 6343 |
662 |
| Olympus Corporation | 13060 |
314 |
| Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd. | 2191 |
251 |
| Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. | 10763 |
229 |
| Gyrus ACMI, Inc. | 1264 |
163 |
| Olympus Winter & Ibe GmbH | 705 |
112 |
| Ethicon, LLC | 1367 |
102 |
| St. Jude Medical, Cardiology Division, Inc. | 1595 |
100 |
| Medtronic, Inc. | 9818 |
93 |
| Creo Medical Limited | 318 |
90 |
| ERBE Elektromedizin GmbH | 457 |
83 |
| Olympus Medical Systems Corp. | 1875 |
73 |
| Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. | 4252 |
73 |
| Kardium Inc. | 217 |
63 |
| Medtronic Advanced Energy LLC | 163 |
63 |
| Koninklijke Philips N.V. | 25365 |
58 |
| St. Jude Medical, Atrial Fibrillation Division, Inc. | 873 |
53 |
| Applied Medical Resources Corporation | 794 |
53 |
| Medtronic Ireland Manufacturing Unlimited Company | 268 |
45 |
| Other owners | 3580 |