- All sections
- A - Human necessities
- A61B - Diagnosis; surgery; identification
- A61B 1/273 - 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 for the upper alimentary canal, e.g. oesophagoscopes, gastroscopes
Patent holdings for IPC class A61B 1/273
Total number of patents in this class: 689
10-year publication summary
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48
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55
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| 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
Principal owners for this class
| Owner |
All patents
|
This class
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|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. | 8794 |
55 |
| Olympus Corporation | 13667 |
42 |
| Micromass UK Limited | 1121 |
22 |
| Cook Medical Technologies LLC | 3369 |
21 |
| FUJIFILM Corporation | 27102 |
20 |
| Auris Health, Inc. | 774 |
19 |
| Kirk Promotion Ltd. | 149 |
17 |
| Siemens AG | 24990 |
15 |
| Gyrus ACMI, Inc. | 1071 |
11 |
| Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. | 3616 |
8 |
| Envizion Medical Ltd. | 36 |
8 |
| Covidien LP | 10647 |
7 |
| Koninklijke Philips N.V. | 22975 |
7 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 9795 |
7 |
| Hoya Corporation | 2822 |
6 |
| Digital Endoscopy GmbH | 46 |
6 |
| Guangzhou Baodan Medical Instrument Technology Co., Ltd. | 33 |
6 |
| Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research | 155 |
6 |
| The Regents of the University of Colorado, a body corporate | 2430 |
6 |
| AI Medical Service Inc. | 19 |
6 |
| Other owners | 394 |