- All sections
- A - Human necessities
- A61B - Diagnosissurgeryidentification
- A61B 8/12 - Diagnosis using ultrasonic, sonic or infrasonic waves in body cavities or body tracts, e.g. by using catheters
Patent holdings for IPC class A61B 8/12
Total number of patents in this class: 4914
10-year publication summary
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429
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421
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416
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493
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446
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465
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404
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365
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401
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206
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| 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
Principal owners for this class
| Owner |
All patents
|
This class
|
|---|---|---|
| Koninklijke Philips N.V. | 24610 |
539 |
| Olympus Corporation | 13197 |
320 |
| Philips Image Guided Therapy Corporation | 460 |
294 |
| Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha | 5506 |
258 |
| Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. | 10162 |
215 |
| Volcano Corporation | 454 |
192 |
| FUJIFILM Corporation | 29251 |
181 |
| Olympus Medical Systems Corp. | 1796 |
73 |
| Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd. | 2125 |
62 |
| ACIST Medical Systems, Inc. | 304 |
61 |
| Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. | 4007 |
61 |
| Cleerly, Inc. | 129 |
57 |
| Covidien LP | 10621 |
56 |
| LightLab Imaging, Inc. | 279 |
53 |
| Muffin Incorporated | 121 |
37 |
| Veran Medical Technologies, Inc. | 95 |
37 |
| B-K Medical ApS | 123 |
29 |
| Auris Health, Inc. | 861 |
29 |
| Gynesonics, Inc. | 73 |
28 |
| Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. | 9962 |
27 |
| Other owners | 2305 |