- All sections
- A - Human necessities
- A61M - Devices for introducing media into, or onto, the body; devices for transducing body media or for taking media from the body; devices for producing or ending sleep or stupor
- A61M 5/172 - Means for controlling media flow to the body or for metering media to the body, e.g. drip meters, counters electrical or electronic
Patent holdings for IPC class A61M 5/172
Total number of patents in this class: 4594
10-year publication summary
388
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437
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402
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425
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406
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479
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484
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408
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423
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2
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2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
Principal owners for this class
Owner |
All patents
|
This class
|
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Medtronic MiniMed, Inc. | 1827 |
474 |
Insulet Corporation | 783 |
283 |
DEKA Products Limited Partnership | 1702 |
218 |
DexCom, Inc. | 1586 |
188 |
ICU Medical, Inc. | 1330 |
141 |
Abbott Diabetes Care Inc. | 1903 |
138 |
Roche Diabetes Care, Inc. | 1497 |
119 |
Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc. | 414 |
119 |
Becton, Dickinson and Company | 7058 |
96 |
CareFusion 303, Inc. | 2125 |
76 |
Medtronic, Inc. | 9853 |
74 |
Beta Bionics, Inc. | 93 |
57 |
Baxter Healthcare S.A. | 1841 |
56 |
Baxter International Inc. | 2452 |
55 |
University of Virginia Patent Foundation | 1525 |
53 |
Medtrum Technologies Inc. | 304 |
51 |
Bigfoot Biomedical, Inc. | 176 |
44 |
Glytec, LLC. | 81 |
44 |
The Regents of the University of California | 19479 |
43 |
Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha | 5368 |
40 |
Other owners | 2225 |