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G16H 50/00

ICT specially adapted for medical diagnosis, medical simulation or medical data mining; ICT specially adapted for detecting, monitoring or modelling epidemics or pandemics

Introduced: January 2018

IPC and CPC are identically structured here. All 5 subcodes exist in both systems.

IPC defines codes here since 2018.

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  • G16H 50/20 for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems since 2018 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
  • G16H 50/30 for calculating health indices; for individual health risk assessment since 2018 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
  • G16H 50/50 for simulation or modelling of medical disorders since 2018 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
  • G16H 50/70 for mining of medical data, e.g. analysing previous cases of other patients since 2018 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
  • G16H 50/80 for detecting, monitoring or modelling epidemics or pandemics, e.g. flu since 2018 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC

Top Applicants

Top Applicants (IPC)

Class G16,2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT

  1. PHILIPS ELECTRONICS NL 4,707
  2. IBM (INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION) US 1,767
  3. SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY KR 1,458
  4. CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 1,144
  5. ILLUMINA US 1,097
  6. SIEMENS HEALTHCARE DE 1,074
  7. PHILIPS ELECTRONICS 1,026
  8. FUJIFILM JP 990
  9. PING AN TECHNOLOGY COMPANY 892
  10. ROCHE CH 864

Top Applicants (CPC)

Class G16,2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT

  1. PHILIPS ELECTRONICS NL 7,379
  2. SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY KR 2,740
  3. IBM (INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION) US 2,388
  4. PHILIPS ELECTRONICS 1,849
  5. SIEMENS HEALTHCARE DE 1,697
  6. FUJIFILM JP 1,618
  7. ILLUMINA US 1,335
  8. ROCHE CH 1,264
  9. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA US 1,181
  10. DEXCOM US 1,150