- All sections
- A - Human necessities
- A61B - Diagnosis; surgery; identification
- A61B 1/00 - Instruments for performing medical examinations of the interior of cavities or tubes of the body by visual or photographical inspection, e.g. endoscopes; Illuminating arrangements therefor
Patent holdings for IPC class A61B 1/00
Total number of patents in this class: 21232
10-year publication summary
|
1590
|
1865
|
2070
|
1996
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2161
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2203
|
2087
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1824
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1682
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542
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| 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
Principal owners for this class
| Owner |
All patents
|
This class
|
|---|---|---|
| Olympus Corporation | 13667 |
4642 |
| FUJIFILM Corporation | 27102 |
1021 |
| Olympus Medical Systems Corp. | 1661 |
949 |
| Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. | 8794 |
902 |
| Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. | 3616 |
610 |
| Hoya Corporation | 2822 |
374 |
| Covidien LP | 10647 |
348 |
| Sony Corporation | 32931 |
320 |
| Cilag GmbH International | 5813 |
274 |
| Olympus Winter & Ibe GmbH | 620 |
228 |
| Ambu A/S | 420 |
226 |
| Karl STORZ SE & Co. KG | 1622 |
220 |
| Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc. | 347 |
195 |
| Gyrus ACMI, Inc. | 1071 |
181 |
| Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha | 5216 |
163 |
| Koninklijke Philips N.V. | 22975 |
156 |
| Auris Health, Inc. | 774 |
141 |
| Align Technology, Inc. | 1818 |
139 |
| EndoChoice, Inc. | 183 |
124 |
| Cook Medical Technologies LLC | 3369 |
123 |
| Other owners | 9896 |