- All sections
- A - Human necessities
- A61L - Methods or apparatus for sterilising materials or objects in generaldisinfection, sterilisation or deodorisation of airchemical aspects of bandages, dressings, absorbent pads or surgical articlesmaterials for bandages, dressings, absorbent pads or surgical articles
- A61L 27/18 - Macromolecular materials obtained otherwise than by reactions only involving carbon-to-carbon unsaturated bonds
Patent holdings for IPC class A61L 27/18
Total number of patents in this class: 3073
10-year publication summary
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263
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252
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317
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272
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291
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214
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185
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245
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204
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51
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| 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
Principal owners for this class
| Owner |
All patents
|
This class
|
|---|---|---|
| Tepha, Inc. | 226 |
68 |
| Allergan, Inc. | 2234 |
39 |
| Toray Industries, Inc. | 7033 |
39 |
| University of Pittsburgh - Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education | 3254 |
35 |
| Ethicon, Inc. | 1141 |
33 |
| The Regents of the University of California | 20502 |
32 |
| Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. | 10854 |
32 |
| The Regents of the University of Michigan | 4886 |
30 |
| FUJIFILM Corporation | 30192 |
23 |
| Board of Regents, The University of Texas System | 6032 |
23 |
| The Johns Hopkins University | 5798 |
23 |
| The University of Akron | 634 |
22 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 10185 |
21 |
| DSM IP Assets B.V. | 5451 |
20 |
| Abyrx, Inc. | 87 |
19 |
| Edwards Lifesciences Corporation | 4804 |
18 |
| Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc. | 2898 |
17 |
| Biorez, Inc. | 23 |
16 |
| AxoGen Corporation | 249 |
15 |
| The Secant Group, LLC | 103 |
15 |
| Other owners | 2533 |