- 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 5/178 - Syringes
Patent holdings for IPC class A61M 5/178
Total number of patents in this class: 2881
10-year publication summary
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173
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197
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247
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200
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216
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213
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173
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171
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168
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30
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| 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
Principal owners for this class
| Owner |
All patents
|
This class
|
|---|---|---|
| Becton, Dickinson and Company | 6712 |
196 |
| Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH | 2738 |
65 |
| Cook Medical Technologies LLC | 3369 |
47 |
| Bayer HealthCare LLC | 1415 |
39 |
| Cilag GmbH International | 5813 |
38 |
| Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha | 5216 |
37 |
| Covidien LP | 10647 |
31 |
| Amgen Inc. | 3779 |
29 |
| Credence Medsystems, Inc. | 100 |
28 |
| Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. | 8794 |
26 |
| Applied Medical Resources Corporation | 779 |
25 |
| Sanofi | 3836 |
25 |
| Medtronic MiniMed, Inc. | 1808 |
24 |
| SHL Medical AG | 1049 |
24 |
| F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG | 7958 |
22 |
| Smiths Medical ASD, Inc. | 766 |
22 |
| Enable Injections, Inc. | 66 |
21 |
| Medical Components, Inc. | 279 |
21 |
| Kpr U.S., LLC | 676 |
21 |
| Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. | 3060 |
20 |
| Other owners | 2120 |