- All sections
- A - Human necessities
- A61B - Diagnosis; surgery; identification
- A61B 1/07 - 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 using light-conductive means, e.g. optical fibres
Patent holdings for IPC class A61B 1/07
Total number of patents in this class: 2069
10-year publication summary
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168
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201
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242
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284
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269
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288
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219
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185
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135
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43
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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 |
292 |
| Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. | 8794 |
55 |
| FUJIFILM Corporation | 27102 |
50 |
| Acclarent, Inc. | 550 |
43 |
| Cilag GmbH International | 5813 |
43 |
| Invuity, Inc. | 163 |
43 |
| The General Hospital Corporation | 4517 |
42 |
| Hoya Corporation | 2822 |
38 |
| Alcon, Inc. | 4899 |
38 |
| Canon U.S.A., Inc. | 472 |
34 |
| Sony Corporation | 32931 |
30 |
| Karl STORZ SE & Co. KG | 1622 |
30 |
| Ambu A/S | 420 |
27 |
| Olympus Winter & Ibe GmbH | 620 |
25 |
| Medos International SARL | 731 |
23 |
| Depuy Synthes Products, LLC | 2880 |
21 |
| Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. | 3616 |
21 |
| Gyrus ACMI, Inc. | 1071 |
19 |
| Koninklijke Philips N.V. | 22975 |
18 |
| Ethicon, LLC | 1367 |
18 |
| Other owners | 1159 |