- 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: 5081
10-year publication summary
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416
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406
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398
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477
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428
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452
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395
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365
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402
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381
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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. | 25107 |
566 |
| Olympus Corporation | 13099 |
321 |
| Philips Image Guided Therapy Corporation | 468 |
303 |
| Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha | 5631 |
265 |
| Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. | 10481 |
229 |
| FUJIFILM Corporation | 29775 |
196 |
| Volcano Corporation | 444 |
190 |
| Olympus Medical Systems Corp. | 1822 |
75 |
| Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd. | 2161 |
67 |
| Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. | 4159 |
62 |
| ACIST Medical Systems, Inc. | 304 |
61 |
| Cleerly, Inc. | 137 |
60 |
| Covidien LP | 10668 |
56 |
| LightLab Imaging, Inc. | 282 |
53 |
| Veran Medical Technologies, Inc. | 90 |
40 |
| Muffin Incorporated | 129 |
38 |
| Gynesonics, Inc. | 77 |
31 |
| Procept Biorobotics Corporation | 137 |
30 |
| B-K Medical ApS | 122 |
29 |
| Auris Health, Inc. | 904 |
29 |
| Other owners | 2380 |