- All sections
- A - Human necessities
- A61B - Diagnosis; surgery; identification
- A61B 18/26 - 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 for producing a shock wave, e.g. laser lithotripsy
Patent holdings for IPC class A61B 18/26
Total number of patents in this class: 473
10-year publication summary
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22
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21
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34
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33
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37
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48
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92
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67
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74
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23
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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 |
95 |
| Bolt Medical, Inc. | 110 |
67 |
| Gyrus ACMI, Inc. | 1071 |
54 |
| Auris Health, Inc. | 774 |
16 |
| Lumenis Ltd. | 119 |
14 |
| Olympus Corporation | 13667 |
12 |
| Sanuwave, Inc. | 84 |
11 |
| The Spectranetics Corporation | 228 |
11 |
| IPG Photonics Corporation | 494 |
9 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc. | 170 |
9 |
| Koninklijke Philips N.V. | 22975 |
5 |
| Pipstek, LLC | 12 |
5 |
| Board of Regents, The University of Texas System | 5370 |
4 |
| C.R. Bard, Inc. | 718 |
4 |
| Calyxo, Inc. | 17 |
4 |
| C2dx, Inc. | 52 |
4 |
| Boston Scientific Corporation | 84 |
3 |
| The Regents of the University of Michigan | 4409 |
3 |
| The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York | 3440 |
3 |
| Biolase, Inc. | 164 |
3 |
| Other owners | 137 |