G12 INSTRUMENT DETAILS
Description
G12 encompasses structural, mechanical, and design details common to measuring, testing, and scientific instruments that are not addressed by more specific instrument classes. This class covers frame designs, mountings, supports, protective housings, calibration mechanisms, and standardization features applicable across diverse instrument types. It serves as a repository for instrument-related inventions that function as enabling technologies for multiple instrument categories rather than innovations specific to a single measurement principle or application domain. Adjacent classes address particular instrument types (e.g., G01 for measuring or testing, G02 for optical instruments), making G12 essential for cross-cutting technical improvements to instrument functionality and durability.
IPC and CPC are identically structured here. All 1 subcodes exist in both systems.
Child Classifications
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- G12B CONSTRUCTIONAL DETAILS OF INSTRUMENTS, OR COMPARABLE DETAILS OF OTHER APPARATUS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR heading IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
Top Applicants
Top Applicants (IPC)
2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT
- HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY US 90
- ROBERT BOSCH DE 46
- SICK DE 26
- TIANJIN UNIVERSITY 24
- CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 23
- NSK 22
- CARL ZEISS SMT DE 22
- ENDRESS + HAUSER & COMPANY DE 21
- SUZHOU MICRO AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGY COMPANY 20
- AUDI DE 20
Top Applicants (CPC)
2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT
- BECTON, DICKINSON & COMPANY US 20
- LANDIS & GYR CH 17
- TIANJIN UNIVERSITY 16
- AUDI DE 14
- SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY KR 13
- ARCHI ENTERPRISES CA 12
- RITTAL & COMPANY DE 11
- SIEMENS DE 11
- HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY US 10
- ROBERT BOSCH DE 10