Patent holdings for IPC class G01N 21/47

Total number of patents in this class: 3902

10-year publication summary

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214
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172
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Principal owners for this class

Owner
All patents
This class
ASML Netherlands B.V.
7710
143
KLA-Tencor Corporation
2524
105
The General Hospital Corporation
4797
60
Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux energies alternatives
10975
56
KLA Corporation
1781
56
Hitachi High-Tech Corporation
5629
49
Canon Inc.
42139
40
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
153093
36
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
7202
34
Apple Inc.
57989
31
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
33401
29
Hamamatsu Photonics K.K.
4593
26
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
8120
25
Centre National de La Recherche Scientifique
10846
24
The Wave Talk, Inc.
59
24
bioMerieux, Inc.
451
22
Robert Bosch GmbH
43500
21
Seagate Technology LLC
3985
21
Sony Corporation
30461
20
Koninklijke Philips N.V.
25511
20
Other owners 3060