A61B 5/150175
Adjustment of penetration depth
Official title: {Adjustment of penetration depth}
A61B5/150175 (Adjustment of penetration depth) appears on 669 US grants and 886 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- 22 Sep 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Body-insertion device and method for controlling the same22 Sep 2026US 12,740,732 B2Airs Medical Inc.
- Lancing device utilizing tail handle to load and adjust depth18 Aug 2026US 12,708,300 B2Sterilance Medical (Suzhou) Inc.
- Liquid collection device31 Mar 2026US 12,588,845 B2University of Tasmania
- Blood collection apparatus13 Jan 2026US 12,521,048 B2Hitachi High-Tech Corporation
- Devices, systems and methods for actuation and retraction in fluid collection6 Jan 2026US 12,514,476 B2Tasso, Inc.
- Devices, systems and methods for actuation and retraction in fluid collection13 Aug 2026US 2026/0232238 A1Tasso, Inc.
- Devices and methods for body fluid sampling and analysis2 Apr 2026US 2026/0090746 A1
- Systems and interfaces for blood sampling19 Mar 2026US 2026/0076595 A1YourBio Health, Inc.
- Latch mechanism for preventing lancet oscillation in a lancing device2 Oct 2025US 2025/0302351 A1Facet Technologies, LLC
- Pumping fluid delivery systems and methods using force application assembly29 May 2025US 2025/0170328 A1DEKA Products Limited Partnership
Most cited
By later US patents
- Lancing apparatus for producing a puncture wound1,402US 8,002,785 B2Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc. · 2011
- Tissue penetration device1,208US 7,025,774 B2Pelikan Technologies, Inc. · 2006
- Method and apparatus for penetrating tissue956US 7,547,287 B2Pelikan Technologies, Inc. · 2009
- Puncture needle cartridge and lancet for blood collection849US 7,604,118 B2Panasonic Corporation · 2009
- Integrated system and method for sampling blood and analysis835US 5,971,941 AHewlett-Packard Company · 1999