- All sections
- A - Human necessities
- A61B - Diagnosis; surgery; identification
- A61B 1/313 - 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 introducing through surgical openings, e.g. laparoscopes
Patent holdings for IPC class A61B 1/313
Total number of patents in this class: 1645
10-year publication summary
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132
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161
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176
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196
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227
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238
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175
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158
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130
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49
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| 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
Principal owners for this class
| Owner |
All patents
|
This class
|
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. | 3616 |
84 |
| Cilag GmbH International | 5813 |
69 |
| Covidien LP | 10647 |
68 |
| Olympus Corporation | 13667 |
50 |
| Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. | 8794 |
47 |
| FUJIFILM Corporation | 27102 |
41 |
| Sony Corporation | 32931 |
38 |
| Medos International SARL | 731 |
28 |
| Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha | 5216 |
22 |
| Asensus Surgical Europe S.a.r.l | 35 |
22 |
| Koninklijke Philips N.V. | 22975 |
20 |
| Verb Surgical Inc. | 463 |
20 |
| Rebound Therapeutics Corporation | 58 |
19 |
| Iemis (HK) Limited | 46 |
18 |
| Avinger, Inc. | 127 |
17 |
| Kirk Promotion Ltd. | 149 |
17 |
| Auris Health, Inc. | 774 |
17 |
| Applied Medical Resources Corporation | 779 |
15 |
| Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska | 725 |
14 |
| Board of Regents, The University of Texas System | 5370 |
13 |
| Other owners | 1006 |