- All sections
- A - Human necessities
- A61M - Devices for introducing media into, or onto, the body; devices for transducing body media or for taking media from the body; devices for producing or ending sleep or stupor
- A61M 5/172 - Means for controlling media flow to the body or for metering media to the body, e.g. drip meters, counters electrical or electronic
Patent holdings for IPC class A61M 5/172
Total number of patents in this class: 4312
10-year publication summary
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339
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388
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436
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402
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423
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405
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476
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479
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400
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125
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| 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
Principal owners for this class
| Owner |
All patents
|
This class
|
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic MiniMed, Inc. | 1808 |
445 |
| Insulet Corporation | 736 |
255 |
| DEKA Products Limited Partnership | 1640 |
212 |
| DexCom, Inc. | 1502 |
178 |
| Abbott Diabetes Care Inc. | 1821 |
128 |
| ICU Medical, Inc. | 856 |
121 |
| Roche Diabetes Care, Inc. | 1492 |
116 |
| Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc. | 376 |
106 |
| Becton, Dickinson and Company | 6712 |
90 |
| Medtronic, Inc. | 9964 |
79 |
| CareFusion 303, Inc. | 1975 |
67 |
| Beta Bionics, Inc. | 89 |
55 |
| Baxter International Inc. | 2425 |
52 |
| Baxter Healthcare S.A. | 1810 |
49 |
| University of Virginia Patent Foundation | 1470 |
45 |
| Aseko, Inc. | 71 |
44 |
| Medtrum Technologies Inc. | 267 |
43 |
| The Regents of the University of California | 18943 |
42 |
| Bigfoot Biomedical, Inc. | 158 |
41 |
| Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha | 5216 |
38 |
| Other owners | 2106 |