- All sections
- A - Human necessities
- A61B - Diagnosis; surgery; identification
- A61B 18/04 - Surgical instruments, devices or methods for transferring non-mechanical forms of energy to or from the body by heating
Patent holdings for IPC class A61B 18/04
Total number of patents in this class: 2499
10-year publication summary
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233
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229
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268
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210
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208
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183
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206
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151
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108
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30
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| 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
Principal owners for this class
| Owner |
All patents
|
This class
|
|---|---|---|
| Covidien LP | 10647 |
148 |
| Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. | 8794 |
94 |
| Olympus Corporation | 13667 |
75 |
| Minerva Surgical, Inc. | 158 |
56 |
| Cilag GmbH International | 5813 |
52 |
| Apyx Medical Corporation | 75 |
43 |
| ERBE Elektromedizin GmbH | 458 |
39 |
| Domain Surgical, Inc. | 55 |
33 |
| Aegea Medical, Inc. | 43 |
30 |
| I.C. Medical, Inc. | 92 |
30 |
| Ablative Solutions, Inc. | 67 |
29 |
| Creo Medical Limited | 383 |
27 |
| Medtronic Ireland Manufacturing Unlimited Company | 154 |
27 |
| Channel Medsystems, Inc. | 59 |
26 |
| U.S. Patent Innovations LLC | 74 |
26 |
| ArthroCare Corporation | 210 |
25 |
| Santa Anna Tech LLC | 28 |
25 |
| Micromass UK Limited | 1121 |
22 |
| Relign Corporation | 97 |
22 |
| Thermedical, Inc. | 39 |
22 |
| Other owners | 1648 |