- All sections
- A - Human necessities
- A61B - Diagnosissurgeryidentification
- A61B 8/12 - Diagnosis using ultrasonic, sonic or infrasonic waves in body cavities or body tracts, e.g. by using catheters
Patent holdings for IPC class A61B 8/12
Total number of patents in this class: 5004
10-year publication summary
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416
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406
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396
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476
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427
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452
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395
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361
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400
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289
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| 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
Principal owners for this class
| Owner |
All patents
|
This class
|
|---|---|---|
| Koninklijke Philips N.V. | 24810 |
549 |
| Olympus Corporation | 13161 |
321 |
| Philips Image Guided Therapy Corporation | 462 |
298 |
| Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha | 5566 |
262 |
| Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. | 10293 |
224 |
| Volcano Corporation | 451 |
192 |
| FUJIFILM Corporation | 29489 |
188 |
| Olympus Medical Systems Corp. | 1794 |
75 |
| Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd. | 2157 |
63 |
| Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. | 4086 |
63 |
| ACIST Medical Systems, Inc. | 304 |
61 |
| Cleerly, Inc. | 131 |
57 |
| Covidien LP | 10646 |
56 |
| LightLab Imaging, Inc. | 279 |
53 |
| Veran Medical Technologies, Inc. | 96 |
38 |
| Muffin Incorporated | 124 |
37 |
| Gynesonics, Inc. | 75 |
30 |
| B-K Medical ApS | 123 |
29 |
| Auris Health, Inc. | 871 |
29 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 1519 |
28 |
| Other owners | 2351 |