A61B 5/150427
Specific tip design
Official title: {Specific tip design, e.g. for improved penetration characteristics}
A61B5/150427 (Specific tip design) appears on 210 US grants and 263 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 263
- Assignees
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- Latest grant
- 2 Jun 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Tissue penetration device1,208US 7,025,774 B2Pelikan Technologies, Inc. · 2006
- Device and method for enchancing transdermal sampling1,134US 6,219,574 B1Alza Corporation · 2001
- 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