Brainlab ranked #5 Holder of Pervasive Neurotech Intellectual Property*

Brain­lab is a Ger­man health­care inno­va­tion com­pa­ny that devel­ops a wide array of tech­nolo­gies for the plan­ning and guid­ance of surgery and radio­surgery.  Such prod­ucts are designed to con­tin­u­ous­ly track sur­gi­cal instru­ments in rela­tion to anatom­i­cal ori­en­ta­tion in order to pro­vide sur­geons the tools need­ed to com­plete a rou­tine or com­plex pro­ce­dure.  Their pri­ma­ry prod­uct groups include neu­ro­surgery, spinal/trauma surgery, ortho­pe­dics, and radio­surgery. Brain­lab con­sid­ers itself first and fore­most a soft­ware com­pa­ny because of the soft­ware solu­tion that under­lies all image-guid­ed sur­gi­cal products.

• Loca­tion: Munich, Germany
• Num­ber of employ­ees: 1000–9999
• Per­va­sive neu­rotech US patent grants: 10
• Per­va­sive neu­rotech US pend­ing appli­ca­tions: 4

*Brain­lab ranked #5 in Sharp­Brains’ Per­va­sive Neu­rotech IP Strength Index, thanks to patents such as:

• US6827681: Method and device for tran­scra­nial mag­net­ic stimulation
• US7711431: Method and device for stim­u­lat­ing the brain
• US7239910: Meth­ods and devices for tran­scra­nial mag­net­ic stim­u­la­tion and cor­ti­cal cartography

To learn more about Sharp­Brains’ take on the orga­ni­za­tion’s #Per­va­siveNeu­rotech IP port­fo­lio, and over­all data and trends, click on Per­va­sive Neu­rotech­nol­o­gy: A Ground­break­ing Analy­sis of 10,000+ Patent Fil­ings Trans­form­ing Med­i­cine, Health, Enter­tain­ment, and Busi­ness.