- All sections
- A - Human necessities
- A61B - Diagnosis; surgery; identification
- A61B 18/24 - Surgical instruments, devices or methods for transferring non-mechanical forms of energy to or from the body by applying electromagnetic radiation, e.g. microwaves using laser the beam being directed along or through a flexible conduit, e.g. an optical fibre; Hand-pieces therefor with a catheter
Patent holdings for IPC class A61B 18/24
Total number of patents in this class: 1182
10-year publication summary
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110
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119
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115
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117
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137
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107
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135
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106
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85
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29
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| 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
Principal owners for this class
| Owner |
All patents
|
This class
|
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. | 8794 |
88 |
| The Spectranetics Corporation | 228 |
61 |
| Bolt Medical, Inc. | 110 |
53 |
| Koninklijke Philips N.V. | 22975 |
41 |
| Medtronic Ireland Manufacturing Unlimited Company | 154 |
31 |
| Gyrus ACMI, Inc. | 1071 |
24 |
| CardioFocus, Inc. | 50 |
22 |
| Eximo Medical Ltd. | 28 |
16 |
| AquaBeam LLC | 20 |
15 |
| Katalyst Surgical, LLC | 126 |
15 |
| Covidien LP | 10647 |
14 |
| Medtronic Ardian Luxembourg S.a.r.l. | 287 |
14 |
| Alcon, Inc. | 4899 |
13 |
| Medlumics S.L. | 75 |
12 |
| Veran Medical Technologies, Inc. | 84 |
12 |
| St. Jude Medical, Atrial Fibrillation Division, Inc. | 923 |
11 |
| Hamamatsu Photonics K.K. | 4161 |
11 |
| Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd. | 1925 |
11 |
| Sync-Rx, Ltd. | 59 |
11 |
| The General Hospital Corporation | 4517 |
10 |
| Other owners | 697 |