A61B 2010/0216
Sampling brushes
Official title: {Sampling brushes}
A61B2010/0216 (Sampling brushes) appears on 352 US grants and 569 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 352
- Published applications
- 569
- Assignees
- 319
- Inventors
- 1,179
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2024 | 19 | 50 |
| 2025 | 20 | 36 |
| 2026 | 15 | 17 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Sampling swabs and methods of making the same6 Oct 2026US 12,751,699 B2Carnegie Mellon University
- Medical device for conducting papanicolaou (Pap) test8 Sep 2026US 12,727,865 B2PapEasy Inc.
- Swab for collecting samples of biological material and associate method of production11 Aug 2026US 12,702,387 B2Copan Italia S.p.A.
- Device for positioning an absorptive matrix element within a body cavity and kit for collecting biological secretions16 Jun 2026US 12,653,510 B2Noselab GmbH
- Continuum robot control system and continuum robot control method16 Jun 2026US 12,654,309 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Scrape and sweep frictional tissue sampling and collection method and device17 Sep 2026US 2026/0272428 A1Histologics, LLC
- Kit and method for earwax self-sampling and the measurement of biomarkers using said earwax in situ3 Sep 2026US 2026/0259206 A1Trears Ltd.
- A method for storing and transporting forensic evidence, and container comprising forensic evidence6 Aug 2026US 2026/0228480 A1
- Sample collection and preservation devices, systems and methods16 Jul 2026US 2026/0198905 A1Nextgen Jane, Inc.
- Pneumatic expansion-based soft nasal swab, sampling device, and sampling method16 Jul 2026US 2026/0198906 A1The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University (Guangzhou Respiratory Center)
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