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IPC Main Group
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

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

5 direct subcodes

Child Classifications

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  • G16H 50/2 for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems
  • G16H 50/3 for calculating health indices; for individual health risk assessment
  • G16H 50/5 for simulation or modelling of medical disorders
  • G16H 50/7 for mining of medical data, e.g. analysing previous cases of other patients
  • G16H 50/8 for detecting, monitoring or modelling epidemics or pandemics, e.g. flu

Top Applicants

Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor 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