A61G TRANSPORT, PERSONAL CONVEYANCES, OR ACCOMMODATION SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR PATIENTS OR DISABLED PERSONS (appliances for aiding patients or disabled persons to walk A61H3/00); OPERATING TABLES OR CHAIRS; CHAIRS FOR DENTISTRY; FUNERAL DEVICES (embalming corpses A01N1/00)
Description
This subclass covers medical and assistive equipment designed for safe transport, mobility, and positioning of patients, disabled persons, and deceased individuals. It encompasses stretchers, gurneys, wheelchairs, patient lifts, operating tables, dental chairs, examination couches, and related mechanical or structural devices that facilitate medical procedures or improve accessibility. The classification includes both manual and powered conveyances, positioning mechanisms, and safety features integral to patient handling and accommodation in healthcare and domestic settings. Funeral equipment such as caskets and cremation devices are also included within this broad scope.
19 direct subcodes
Child Classifications
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- A61G 1/00 Stretchers
- A61G 10/00 Treatment rooms for medical purposes (baby incubators, couveuses A61G11/00; devices for gas baths with ozone, hydrogen or the like A61H33/14 ; containers or portable cabins for affording breathing protection in general A62B31/00)
- A61G 11/00 Baby-incubators; Couveuses
- A61G 12/00 Accommodation for nursing, e.g. in hospitals, not covered by groups A61G1/00 - A61G11/00, e.g. trolleys for transport of medicaments or food ; Prescription lists
- A61G 13/00 Operating tables; Auxiliary appliances therefor (illumination of operating tables F21L, F21S or F21V )
- A61G 15/00 Operating chairs; Dental chairs (barbers' chairs A47C1/04); Accessories specially adapted therefor, e.g. work stands
- A61G 17/00 Coffins; Funeral wrappings; Funeral urns
- A61G 19/00 Hoisting or lowering devices for coffins
- A61G 21/00 Funeral aspects of hearses or like vehicles
- A61G 2200/00 Information related to the kind of patient or his position
- A61G 2203/00 General characteristics of devices
- A61G 2205/00 General identification or selection means
- A61G 2210/00 Devices for specific treatment or diagnosis
- A61G 2220/00 Adaptations of particular transporting means
- A61G 3/00 Ambulance aspects of vehicles; Vehicles with special provisions for transporting patients or disabled persons, or their personal conveyances, e.g. for facilitating access of, or for loading, wheelchairs
- A61G 5/00 Chairs or personal conveyances specially adapted for patients or disabled persons, e.g. wheelchairs ( devices enabling patients or disabled persons to operate an apparatus or device not forming part of the body A61F4/00; bicycles specially adapted for disabled riders B62K3/16 )
- A61G 7/00 Beds specially adapted for nursing; Devices for lifting patients or disabled persons (stretchers with facilities for picking up patients or disabled persons A61G1/003)
- A61G 9/00 Bed-pans, urinals or other sanitary devices for bed-ridden persons; Cleaning devices therefor, e.g. combined with toilet-urinals (urinals worn by the patient A61F5/44)
- A61G 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other groups of this subclass
Top Applicants
Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor class A61, 2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT
- PHILIPS ELECTRONICS NL 20,621
- NOVARTIS CH 15,792
- ROCHE CH 14,303
- COVIDIEN US 13,862
- HARVARD UNIVERSITY US 13,454
- UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA US 12,798
- P&G (PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY) US 12,140
- L'OREAL FR 11,800
- OLYMPUS CORPORATION JP 9,894
- BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED US 9,513