- All sections
- A - Human necessities
- A61B - Diagnosissurgeryidentification
- A61B 18/12 - Surgical instruments, devices or methods for transferring non-mechanical forms of energy to or from the body by heating by passing a current through the tissue to be heated, e.g. high-frequency current
Patent holdings for IPC class A61B 18/12
Total number of patents in this class: 6617
10-year publication summary
|
527
|
650
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531
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726
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655
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639
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557
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452
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465
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210
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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 | 10621 |
654 |
| Cilag GmbH International | 6216 |
624 |
| Olympus Corporation | 13197 |
308 |
| Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd. | 2125 |
240 |
| Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. | 10162 |
211 |
| Gyrus ACMI, Inc. | 1200 |
156 |
| Olympus Winter & Ibe GmbH | 685 |
108 |
| Ethicon, LLC | 1367 |
102 |
| Creo Medical Limited | 330 |
94 |
| St. Jude Medical, Cardiology Division, Inc. | 1501 |
89 |
| Medtronic, Inc. | 9788 |
87 |
| ERBE Elektromedizin GmbH | 457 |
83 |
| Olympus Medical Systems Corp. | 1796 |
69 |
| Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. | 4007 |
66 |
| Kardium Inc. | 211 |
63 |
| Medtronic Advanced Energy LLC | 162 |
59 |
| Koninklijke Philips N.V. | 24610 |
58 |
| St. Jude Medical, Atrial Fibrillation Division, Inc. | 894 |
52 |
| Applied Medical Resources Corporation | 794 |
49 |
| Japan Lifeline Co., Ltd. | 298 |
40 |
| Other owners | 3405 |