- 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 5/178 - Syringes
Patent holdings for IPC class A61M 5/178
Total number of patents in this class: 2907
10-year publication summary
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197
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247
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202
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216
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220
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177
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178
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175
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126
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14
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| 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
Principal owners for this class
| Owner |
All patents
|
This class
|
|---|---|---|
| Becton, Dickinson and Company | 7071 |
206 |
| Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH | 2602 |
61 |
| Cook Medical Technologies LLC | 3323 |
47 |
| Bayer HealthCare LLC | 1383 |
38 |
| Cilag GmbH International | 6037 |
38 |
| Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha | 5398 |
36 |
| Credence Medsystems, Inc. | 112 |
32 |
| Amgen Inc. | 3899 |
30 |
| ICU Medical, Inc. | 1330 |
29 |
| Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. | 9524 |
26 |
| Covidien LP | 10645 |
25 |
| SHL Medical AG | 1185 |
25 |
| Sanofi | 3951 |
25 |
| Medtronic MiniMed, Inc. | 1828 |
24 |
| F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG | 7942 |
22 |
| Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. | 3267 |
22 |
| Applied Medical Resources Corporation | 774 |
22 |
| Enable Injections, Inc. | 67 |
21 |
| Medtronic, Inc. | 9837 |
19 |
| CareFusion 303, Inc. | 2136 |
19 |
| Other owners | 2140 |