- All sections
- A - Human necessities
- A61B - Diagnosissurgeryidentification
- A61B 90/98 - Identification means for patients or instruments, e.g. tags using electromagnetic means, e.g. transponders
Patent holdings for IPC class A61B 90/98
Total number of patents in this class: 1947
10-year publication summary
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174
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208
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266
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232
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191
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218
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129
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166
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127
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55
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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 | 6391 |
365 |
| Covidien LP | 10667 |
161 |
| Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. | 4325 |
101 |
| Stryker Corporation | 5278 |
70 |
| Globus Medical, Inc. | 2813 |
63 |
| Aesculap AG | 1436 |
51 |
| Ethicon, LLC | 1367 |
26 |
| MAKO Surgical Corp. | 766 |
19 |
| Auris Health, Inc. | 1349 |
19 |
| Becton, Dickinson and Company | 7530 |
18 |
| Koninklijke Philips N.V. | 25674 |
17 |
| Alcon, Inc. | 5739 |
16 |
| Cianna Medical, Inc. | 104 |
16 |
| Moon Surgical SAS | 52 |
15 |
| Medtronic Navigation, Inc. | 683 |
13 |
| Depuy Synthes Products, LLC | 2784 |
13 |
| Bard Access Systems, Inc. | 861 |
13 |
| Synaptive Medical Inc. | 553 |
13 |
| Siemens Healthineers Endovascular Robotics, Inc. | 173 |
13 |
| Elucent Medical, Inc. | 44 |
12 |
| Other owners | 913 |