A61B 2010/0067
Tear or lachrymal fluid
Official title: {Tear or lachrymal fluid}
A61B2010/0067 (Tear or lachrymal fluid) appears on 65 US grants and 105 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 65
- Published applications
- 105
- Assignees
- 69
- Inventors
- 228
- Latest grant
- 8 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 2009 | 0 | 1 |
| 2010 | 0 | 1 |
| 2011 | 2 | 4 |
| 2012 | 1 | 3 |
| 2013 | 2 | 4 |
| 2014 | 1 | 9 |
| 2015 | 4 | 3 |
| 2016 | 4 | 7 |
| 2017 | 2 | 6 |
| 2018 | 4 | 7 |
| 2019 | 4 | 10 |
| 2020 | 4 | 5 |
| 2021 | 6 | 12 |
| 2022 | 1 | 5 |
| 2023 | 1 | 5 |
| 2024 | 4 | 8 |
| 2025 | 7 | 1 |
| 2026 | 3 | 2 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- System and method for AI-enhanced Raman spectroscopy tear analysis8 Sep 2026US 12,727,758 B1
- System for collecting and utilizing health data19 May 2026US 12,629,057 B2Menicon Co., Ltd.
- Systems and methods for dynamic temperature compensation of tear osmolarity20 Jan 2026US 12,527,472 B2Tearlab Research, Inc.
- Auto-powered synthetic skin30 Dec 2025US 12,507,954 B2California Institute of Technology
- Devices, systems, and methods for biological sample collection7 Oct 2025US 12,433,787 B2The Penn State Research Foundation
- Tear sample eluent, diluent and preparation method therefor, and tear collection and treating apparatus7 May 2026US 2026/0126351 A1Beijing Sightnovo Medical Technology Co., Ltd
- Systems and methods for dynamic temperature compensation of tear osmolarity30 Apr 2026US 2026/0114725 A1Tearlab Research, Inc.
- Devices and methods for microbiome sampling29 May 2025US 2025/0169801 A1Aobiome LLC
- Microneedle, microneedle patch, method of manufacture and method of use thereof12 Dec 2024US 2024/0408367 A1City University of Hong Kong
- Devices and methods for microbiome sampling7 Nov 2024US 2024/0366194 A1Aobiome LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Nonintrusive body fluid samplers and methods of using same99US 4,635,488 ASchleicher & Schuell, Inc. · 1987
- Process for analyzing tear fluid71US 7,429,465 B2Novartis AG · 2008
- Saliva sampling device with sample adequacy indicating system62US 5,260,031 ASaliva Diagnostic Systems, Inc. · 1993
- Fluid sampling and testing device57US 5,283,038 ASaliva Diagnostic Systems, Inc. · 1994
- Fluid sampling device40US 5,919,356 AFSM Technologies Ltd. · 1999