- All sections
- A - Human necessities
- A61B - Diagnosis; surgery; identification
- A61B 18/08 - Surgical instruments, devices or methods for transferring non-mechanical forms of energy to or from the body by heating by means of electrically-heated probes
Patent holdings for IPC class A61B 18/08
Total number of patents in this class: 1358
10-year publication summary
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123
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134
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179
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162
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186
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146
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127
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93
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66
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24
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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 |
168 |
| Covidien LP | 10647 |
145 |
| Cilag GmbH International | 5813 |
45 |
| Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. | 8794 |
42 |
| Avenu Medical, Inc. | 68 |
33 |
| AtriCure, Inc. | 329 |
29 |
| Domain Surgical, Inc. | 55 |
29 |
| Aerin Medical, Inc. | 82 |
27 |
| Kardium Inc. | 193 |
23 |
| Gyrus ACMI, Inc. | 1071 |
21 |
| Thermedical, Inc. | 39 |
19 |
| MAQUET Cardiovascular LLC | 142 |
17 |
| Centricity Vision, Inc. | 35 |
16 |
| Mederi RF, LLC | 18 |
15 |
| Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd. | 1925 |
13 |
| Medtronic Ardian Luxembourg S.a.r.l. | 287 |
12 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 84 |
12 |
| Fractyl Health, Inc. | 68 |
12 |
| St. Jude Medical, Cardiology Division, Inc. | 1351 |
10 |
| Novoxel Ltd. | 43 |
10 |
| Other owners | 660 |