Center for Science and Education Management and Evaluation of Wuhan University, Chen Lixin, Zhang Lin, Huang Ying
The third technical area is medical diagnosis and surgery, which mainly involves stethoscopes, endoscopes, and radiological and ultrasound diagnostic technologies and equipment, as well as surgical instruments, devices and methods. In 2022, the JPO granted a total of 6,344 patents in this field (with a growth rate of 11%), accounting for 32%, which is the 29th highest number of patents in the field.
In 2022, the institutions that received the most patents in Japan in the field of medical diagnosis and surgery were Royal Philips Corporation, Canon Medical Systems Co., Ltd., and Fujifilm Corporation.
TABLE 353-1 Top 10 institutions with patent grants in the field of medical diagnosis and surgery in 2022
Note: The data in this table is counted according to the first right holder.
Figure 353-1 Top 10 institutions with patent grants in the field of medical diagnosis and surgery in 2022
We would like to thank Professor Liu Zeyuan of Dalian University of Technology, Professor Liang Liming of Henan Normal University, and researcher Wuyishan of the Chinese Academy of Science and Technology Development Strategy of the Ministry of Science and Technology for their support and help in this report. At the same time, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to the experts and scholars who have put forward their opinions and suggestions on this report in different forms.