- All sections
- A - Human necessities
- A61B - Diagnosissurgeryidentification
- A61B 18/04 - Surgical instruments, devices or methods for transferring non-mechanical forms of energy to or from the body by heating
Patent holdings for IPC class A61B 18/04
Total number of patents in this class: 2609
10-year publication summary
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230
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268
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210
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211
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186
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222
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155
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119
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130
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77
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| 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
Principal owners for this class
| Owner |
All patents
|
This class
|
|---|---|---|
| Covidien LP | 10636 |
144 |
| Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. | 10237 |
101 |
| Olympus Corporation | 13186 |
74 |
| Minerva Surgical, Inc. | 175 |
63 |
| Cilag GmbH International | 6241 |
56 |
| ERBE Elektromedizin GmbH | 457 |
44 |
| Apyx Medical Corporation | 76 |
44 |
| Ablative Solutions, Inc. | 76 |
40 |
| Medtronic Ireland Manufacturing Unlimited Company | 241 |
36 |
| Fractyl Health, Inc. | 90 |
34 |
| Domain Surgical, Inc. | 55 |
33 |
| I.C. Medical, Inc. | 101 |
33 |
| U.S. Patent Innovations LLC | 73 |
28 |
| ArthroCare Corporation | 206 |
25 |
| Channel Medsystems, Inc. | 59 |
25 |
| CooperSurgical, Inc. | 564 |
24 |
| Creo Medical Limited | 331 |
24 |
| Thermedical, Inc. | 41 |
23 |
| Santa Anna Tech LLC | 26 |
23 |
| Micromass UK Limited | 1119 |
22 |
| Other owners | 1713 |