G16H 40/6 for the operation of medical equipment or devices
Introduced: January 2018
Full Title
ICT specially adapted for the management or administration of healthcare resources or facilities; ICT specially adapted for the management or operation of medical equipment or devices > for the operation of medical equipment or devices
Classification Context
- Section:
- PHYSICS
- Class:
- INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR SPECIFIC APPLICATION FIELDS
- Subclass:
- HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS, i.e. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR THE HANDLING OR PROCESSING OF MEDICAL OR HEALTHCARE DATA
Additional Content
operation covers also monitoring or control local relates to operation by which (i) the patient, (ii) the medical equipment or device, and (iii) the medical practitioner or operator are in a single geographically enclosed area remote relates to operation by which (i) the patient, (ii) the medical equipment or device, or (iii) the medical practitioner or operator are geographically separated transformation of medical or healthcare data, means any contextual, content-related or structural transformation of said data
2 direct subcodes
Child Classifications
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- G16H 40/63 for local operation
- G16H 40/67 for remote operation
Top Applicants
Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor class G16, 2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT
- PHILIPS ELECTRONICS NL 4,707
- IBM (INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION) US 1,767
- SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY KR 1,458
- CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 1,144
- ILLUMINA US 1,097
- SIEMENS HEALTHCARE DE 1,074
- PHILIPS ELECTRONICS 1,026
- FUJIFILM JP 990
- PING AN TECHNOLOGY COMPANY 892
- ROCHE CH 864