- All sections
- A - Human necessities
- A61B - Diagnosis; surgery; identification
- A61B 1/04 - 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 combined with photographic or television appliances
Patent holdings for IPC class A61B 1/04
Total number of patents in this class: 7062
10-year publication summary
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605
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757
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900
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640
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576
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594
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452
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406
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342
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104
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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 |
1889 |
| Olympus Medical Systems Corp. | 1661 |
303 |
| FUJIFILM Corporation | 27102 |
262 |
| Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. | 3616 |
218 |
| Sony Corporation | 32931 |
136 |
| Cilag GmbH International | 5813 |
135 |
| Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc. | 347 |
121 |
| Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. | 8794 |
118 |
| Given Imaging Ltd. | 317 |
103 |
| Hoya Corporation | 2822 |
90 |
| Capso Vision, Inc. | 134 |
68 |
| Karl STORZ Imaging, Inc. | 229 |
68 |
| Karl STORZ SE & Co. KG | 1622 |
68 |
| Stryker Corporation | 3864 |
65 |
| Covidien LP | 10647 |
63 |
| Ethicon, LLC | 1367 |
41 |
| Evident Corporation | 1072 |
41 |
| Ankon Medical Technologies (Shanghai),LTD. | 99 |
38 |
| Ankon Technologies Co., Ltd | 87 |
38 |
| EndoChoice, Inc. | 183 |
35 |
| Other owners | 3162 |