Patent holdings for IPC class G01B 9/02

Total number of patents in this class: 4717

10-year publication summary

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344
302
230
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126
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Principal owners for this class

Owner
All patents
This class
The General Hospital Corporation
4809
100
Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH
3190
75
Hamamatsu Photonics K.K.
4591
72
Canon Inc.
42051
71
Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
1667
66
Zygo Corporation
170
65
ASML Netherlands B.V.
7697
57
Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc.
273
52
Mitutoyo Corporation
1248
41
KLA-Tencor Corporation
2524
39
Nikon Corporation
7256
36
The Regents of the University of California
20494
33
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
7205
32
Apple Inc.
57718
30
Alcon, Inc.
5663
30
Kabushiki Kaisha Topcon
565
28
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
152716
27
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
10201
27
Corning Incorporated
10413
27
Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
4279
27
Other owners 3782