- All sections
- A - Human necessities
- A61B - Diagnosis; surgery; identification
- A61B 90/98 - Identification means for patients or instruments, e.g. tags using electromagnetic means, e.g. transponders
Patent holdings for IPC class A61B 90/98
Total number of patents in this class: 1637
10-year publication summary
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88
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161
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174
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205
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261
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230
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176
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206
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108
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41
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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 |
305 |
| Covidien LP | 10647 |
141 |
| Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. | 3616 |
88 |
| Stryker Corporation | 3864 |
50 |
| Globus Medical, Inc. | 2463 |
43 |
| Aesculap AG | 1306 |
32 |
| Ethicon, LLC | 1367 |
26 |
| Cianna Medical, Inc. | 97 |
16 |
| Koninklijke Philips N.V. | 22975 |
15 |
| Synaptive Medical Inc. | 619 |
15 |
| Elucent Medical, Inc. | 37 |
13 |
| MAKO Surgical Corp. | 620 |
13 |
| Medtronic Navigation, Inc. | 499 |
12 |
| Corindus, Inc. | 181 |
12 |
| Olympus Winter & Ibe GmbH | 620 |
12 |
| Sharp Fluidics Inc. | 29 |
12 |
| Depuy Synthes Products, LLC | 2880 |
11 |
| Auris Health, Inc. | 774 |
11 |
| Alcon, Inc. | 4899 |
9 |
| Cardiovascular Systems, Inc. | 297 |
9 |
| Other owners | 792 |