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Intuitive Surgical Operations patents

Intuitive Surgical Operations holds 4,815 patents in our database, with recent filings and technology areas summarized below.

Company patent statistics
MetricValue
Total patents4,815
Recent patents1,671
First publicationJan 1, 2015
Latest publicationApr 2, 2026

Filing trend

Year-over-year patent counts for this assignee.

Filing activity over the last five years is growing.

Patents filed per year
YearPatents
2015209
2016271
2017298
2018308
2019449
2020487
2021457
2022467
2023502
2024601
2025637
2026129
Browse patents by year
YearPatents
2015209
2016271
2017298
2018308
2019449
2020487
2021457
2022467
2023502
2024601
2025637
2026129

Recent patents

Latest publications where this party is an assignee.

Notable patents

Representative or frequently cited publications from precomputed assignee stats.

Top CPC classifications

Most common classification codes in this portfolio.

Top CPC codes by patent count
CPCPatents
A61B34/302,725
A61B34/371,842
A61B34/351,715
A61B2034/3011,064
A61B34/20977

Technology areas

Mapped technology topics for this assignee.

Company technology slices
TechnologyPatents
Human Necessities4,440
Physics1,797
Operations & Transport1,134
Cross-Sectional Technologies481
Electricity458
Mechanical Engineering257
Chemistry & Metallurgy33
Textiles & Paper1

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Frequently asked questions

Answers are generated from the same data shown on this page.

How many patents does Intuitive Surgical Operations have in patentsdb?
Intuitive Surgical Operations is linked to 4,815 publications as assignee in our database.
What technology areas does Intuitive Surgical Operations patent most?
Top mapped technology areas by patent count: Human Necessities (4,440); Physics (1,797); Operations & Transport (1,134).
Is Intuitive Surgical Operations's patent activity growing?
In our data, assignee counts were 601 in 2024 and 637 in 2025 (higher year over year).
What are recent patents assigned to Intuitive Surgical Operations?
See the “Recent patents” section above for the latest 5 publications we attribute to this assignee.