- All sections
- A - Human necessities
- A61B - Diagnosis; surgery; identification
- A61B 1/06 - 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 with illuminating arrangements
Patent holdings for IPC class A61B 1/06
Total number of patents in this class: 6034
10-year publication summary
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456
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568
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690
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593
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664
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762
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623
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524
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438
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138
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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 |
1059 |
| FUJIFILM Corporation | 27102 |
358 |
| Cilag GmbH International | 5813 |
184 |
| Hoya Corporation | 2822 |
150 |
| Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. | 8794 |
148 |
| Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. | 3616 |
120 |
| Sony Corporation | 32931 |
111 |
| Olympus Medical Systems Corp. | 1661 |
104 |
| Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc. | 347 |
91 |
| Karl STORZ SE & Co. KG | 1622 |
80 |
| Stryker Corporation | 3864 |
71 |
| Covidien LP | 10647 |
70 |
| Depuy Synthes Products, LLC | 2880 |
70 |
| EndoChoice, Inc. | 183 |
62 |
| Gyrus ACMI, Inc. | 1071 |
59 |
| Invuity, Inc. | 163 |
58 |
| Ethicon, LLC | 1367 |
57 |
| Align Technology, Inc. | 1818 |
56 |
| Karl STORZ Imaging, Inc. | 229 |
53 |
| Ambu A/S | 420 |
51 |
| Other owners | 3022 |