A61B 5/150412
Pointed piercing elements
Official title: {Pointed piercing elements, e.g. needles, lancets for piercing the skin (blade-like piercing elements A61B5/150442)}
A61B5/150412 (Pointed piercing elements) appears on 1,446 US grants and 1,861 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 1,446
- Published applications
- 1,861
- Assignees
- 394
- Inventors
- 1,973
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 1980 | 2 | 0 |
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| 1983 | 4 | 0 |
| 1984 | 7 | 0 |
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| 2001 | 31 | 7 |
| 2002 | 20 | 30 |
| 2003 | 30 | 82 |
| 2004 | 15 | 83 |
| 2005 | 24 | 83 |
| 2006 | 23 | 98 |
| 2007 | 43 | 121 |
| 2008 | 26 | 118 |
| 2009 | 33 | 143 |
| 2010 | 75 | 158 |
| 2011 | 108 | 126 |
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| 2013 | 105 | 90 |
| 2014 | 104 | 106 |
| 2015 | 90 | 67 |
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| 2017 | 73 | 45 |
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| 2020 | 47 | 43 |
| 2021 | 40 | 49 |
| 2022 | 20 | 48 |
| 2023 | 12 | 34 |
| 2024 | 23 | 36 |
| 2025 | 17 | 24 |
| 2026 | 16 | 18 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Blood sampling device22 Sep 2026US 12,740,733 B2Owen Mumford Limited
- Systems and methods for collecting fluid from a subject7 Jul 2026US 12,672,806 B2YourBio Health, Inc.
- On-body microsensor for biomonitoring2 Jun 2026US 12,642,488 B2One Health Biosensing Inc.
- 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.
- On-body microsensor for biomonitoring10 Sep 2026US 2026/0263006 A1One Health Biosensing Inc.
- Wearable device for continuous glucose monitoring23 Jul 2026US 2026/0207087 A1Allez Health Inc.
- Blood Collection Device23 Jul 2026US 2026/0207102 A1Hitachi High-Tech Corporation
- Sampling apparatus, sampler, and sampling method16 Jul 2026US 2026/0198817 A1Suzhou Natong Biomed Co., Ltd
- Apparatus and method for collecting blood or other liquids from subject2 Jul 2026US 2026/0182874 A1MGI Tech Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method of using a small volume in vitro analyte sensor1,793US 6,120,676 ATheraSense, Inc. · 2000
- Small volume in vitro analyte sensor1,656US 6,143,164 AE. Heller & Company · 2000
- Small volume in vitro analyte sensor with diffusible or non-leachable redox mediator1,613US 6,591,125 B1TheraSense, Inc. · 2003
- Lancing apparatus for producing a puncture wound1,402US 8,002,785 B2Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc. · 2011
- Medical diagnostic system1,313US 5,279,294 ACascade Medical, Inc. · 1994