- All sections
- A - Human necessities
- A61F - Filters implantable into blood vesselsprosthesesdevices providing patency to, or preventing collapsing of, tubular structures of the body, e.g. stentsorthopaedic, nursing or contraceptive devicesfomentationtreatment or protection of eyes or earsbandages, dressings or absorbent padsfirst-aid kits
- A61F 2/68 - Operating or control means
Patent holdings for IPC class A61F 2/68
Total number of patents in this class: 1394
10-year publication summary
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113
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124
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154
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141
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112
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113
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83
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59
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75
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36
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| 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
Principal owners for this class
| Owner |
All patents
|
This class
|
|---|---|---|
| Otto Bock Healthcare Products GmbH | 272 |
100 |
| Ottobock SE & Co. KGaA | 547 |
89 |
| Ossur HF | 554 |
70 |
| DEKA Products Limited Partnership | 1751 |
67 |
| Ossur Iceland ehf | 475 |
57 |
| Otto Bock HealthCare LP | 88 |
39 |
| Touch Bionics Limited | 85 |
35 |
| Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | 143812 |
34 |
| Vanderbilt University | 1886 |
33 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 10002 |
30 |
| Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago | 136 |
24 |
| RCM Enterprise, LLC | 70 |
18 |
| Proteor USA, LLC | 77 |
18 |
| The Regents of the University of California | 19803 |
17 |
| Blatchford Products Limited | 106 |
17 |
| Otto Bock Healthcare GmbH | 158 |
14 |
| Otto Bock Healthcare IP GmbH & Co. KG | 35 |
13 |
| President and Fellows of Harvard College | 5942 |
12 |
| Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia | 577 |
12 |
| Honda Motor Co., Ltd. | 25127 |
11 |
| Other owners | 684 |