A61B 5/150106
Means for reducing pain or discomfort applied before puncturing
Official title: {Means for reducing pain or discomfort applied before puncturing; desensitising the skin at the location where body is to be pierced}
A61B5/150106 (Means for reducing pain or discomfort applied before puncturing) appears on 352 US grants and 475 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 352
- Published applications
- 475
- Assignees
- 123
- Inventors
- 570
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2002 | 3 | 5 |
| 2003 | 2 | 32 |
| 2004 | 2 | 17 |
| 2005 | 1 | 9 |
| 2006 | 6 | 31 |
| 2007 | 12 | 46 |
| 2008 | 7 | 22 |
| 2009 | 11 | 29 |
| 2010 | 21 | 24 |
| 2011 | 29 | 29 |
| 2012 | 25 | 30 |
| 2013 | 31 | 22 |
| 2014 | 22 | 19 |
| 2015 | 16 | 14 |
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| 2017 | 25 | 12 |
| 2018 | 9 | 8 |
| 2019 | 4 | 13 |
| 2020 | 13 | 12 |
| 2021 | 19 | 23 |
| 2022 | 8 | 20 |
| 2023 | 6 | 17 |
| 2024 | 14 | 12 |
| 2025 | 8 | 8 |
| 2026 | 8 | 6 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Fluid control devices and methods of using the same6 Oct 2026US 12,751,652 B2Magnolia Medical Technologies, Inc.
- Device for the attached flow of blood29 Sep 2026US 12,745,936 B2Becton, Dickinson and Company
- Medical device inserters and processes of inserting and using medical devices19 May 2026US 12,629,173 B2Abbott Diabetes Care Inc.
- Medical device inserters and processes of inserting and using medical devices21 Apr 2026US 12,605,185 B2Abbott Diabetes Care Inc.
- Medical device inserters and processes of inserting and using medical devices21 Apr 2026US 12,605,186 B2Abbott Diabetes Care Inc.
- Blood Collection Device23 Jul 2026US 2026/0207102 A1Hitachi High-Tech Corporation
- Blood extraction device25 Jun 2026US 2026/0174364 A1Remidio Innovative Solutions Private Limited
- Blood sampler for collecting a blood sample from a digit4 Jun 2026US 2026/0151060 A1Instituut Voor Tropische Geneeskunde
- Blood Collection Device Including Pain Reduction Features21 May 2026US 2026/0137316 A1Becton, Dickinson and Company
- A method for sampling a bodily fluid from a test subject, and a sampling system7 May 2026US 2026/0123865 A1Ascilion AB
Most cited
By later US patents
- Tissue penetration device1,208US 7,025,774 B2Pelikan Technologies, Inc. · 2006
- Method and apparatus for penetrating tissue956US 7,547,287 B2Pelikan Technologies, Inc. · 2009
- Method and apparatus for a multi-use body fluid sampling device with analyte sensing793US 7,198,606 B2Pelikan Technologies, Inc. · 2007
- Sampling module device and method756US 7,041,068 B2Pelikan Technologies, Inc. · 2006
- Methods and apparatus for sampling body fluid610US 5,857,983 AMercury Diagnostics, Inc. · 1999