- All sections
- A - Human necessities
- A61B - Diagnosis; surgery; identification
- A61B 90/96 - Identification means for patients or instruments, e.g. tags coded with symbols, e.g. text using barcodes
Patent holdings for IPC class A61B 90/96
Total number of patents in this class: 492
10-year publication summary
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22
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38
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58
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59
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69
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79
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50
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52
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40
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13
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| 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
Principal owners for this class
| Owner |
All patents
|
This class
|
|---|---|---|
| Cilag GmbH International | 5813 |
63 |
| Globus Medical, Inc. | 2463 |
37 |
| Smith & Nephew Orthopaedics AG | 750 |
21 |
| Smith & Nephew Asia Pacific Pte. Limited | 488 |
17 |
| Becton, Dickinson and Company | 6712 |
14 |
| Smith & Nephew, Inc. | 2685 |
14 |
| Covidien LP | 10647 |
11 |
| NovaRad Corporation | 61 |
8 |
| Synaptive Medical Inc. | 619 |
8 |
| Koninklijke Philips N.V. | 22975 |
7 |
| Olympus Winter & Ibe GmbH | 620 |
7 |
| Spinal Generations, LLC | 74 |
7 |
| Sharp Fluidics Inc. | 29 |
6 |
| Medtronic Navigation, Inc. | 499 |
5 |
| Alcon, Inc. | 4899 |
5 |
| Bardy Diagnostics, Inc. | 188 |
5 |
| Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. | 3616 |
5 |
| Matrix IT Medical Tracking Systems, Inc. | 24 |
5 |
| Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. | 8794 |
4 |
| Augustine Biomedical & Design, LLC | 61 |
4 |
| Other owners | 239 |