- All sections
- G - Physics
- G02B - Optical elements, systems or apparatus
- G02B 23/26 - Instruments for viewing the inside of hollow bodies, e.g. fibrescopes using light guides
Patent holdings for IPC class G02B 23/26
Total number of patents in this class: 1224
10-year publication summary
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174
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155
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141
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95
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61
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47
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26
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19
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21
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6
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| 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
Principal owners for this class
| Owner |
All patents
|
This class
|
|---|---|---|
| Olympus Corporation | 12907 |
581 |
| Olympus Medical Systems Corp. | 1982 |
83 |
| FUJIFILM Corporation | 30689 |
67 |
| Hoya Corporation | 2688 |
50 |
| Sony Corporation | 30052 |
44 |
| Align Technology, Inc. | 2307 |
18 |
| The General Hospital Corporation | 4890 |
15 |
| Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. | 34471 |
14 |
| Evident Corporation | 1021 |
13 |
| Canon U.S.A., Inc. | 544 |
11 |
| Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc. | 387 |
11 |
| Fujikura Ltd. | 3123 |
10 |
| Sony Group Corporation | 15978 |
10 |
| Olympus Winter & Ibe GmbH | 719 |
9 |
| Tamron Co., Ltd. | 229 |
7 |
| Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. | 4450 |
6 |
| Namiki Seimitsu Houseki Kabushiki Kaisha | 135 |
6 |
| Stryker Corporation | 5724 |
5 |
| Mauna Kea Technologies | 47 |
5 |
| The Regents of the University of Colorado, a body corporate | 2846 |
5 |
| Other owners | 254 |