- 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: 3026
10-year publication summary
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249
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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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184
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245
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189
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| 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
Principal owners for this class
| Owner |
All patents
|
This class
|
|---|---|---|
| Tepha, Inc. | 227 |
68 |
| Allergan, Inc. | 2315 |
41 |
| Toray Industries, Inc. | 7006 |
38 |
| Ethicon, Inc. | 1161 |
35 |
| University of Pittsburgh - Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education | 3208 |
34 |
| Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. | 10481 |
31 |
| The Regents of the University of California | 20245 |
30 |
| The Regents of the University of Michigan | 4768 |
27 |
| FUJIFILM Corporation | 29775 |
23 |
| Board of Regents, The University of Texas System | 5921 |
23 |
| The University of Akron | 644 |
23 |
| The Johns Hopkins University | 5746 |
22 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 10124 |
21 |
| DSM IP Assets B.V. | 5567 |
20 |
| Abyrx, Inc. | 86 |
19 |
| Edwards Lifesciences Corporation | 4749 |
18 |
| Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc. | 3000 |
17 |
| Biorez, Inc. | 23 |
16 |
| AxoGen Corporation | 239 |
15 |
| The Secant Group, LLC | 106 |
15 |
| Other owners | 2490 |