A61B 5/150648
Fully automatically triggered, i.e. the triggering of the protective sleeve does not
Official title: {fully automatically triggered, i.e. the triggering of the protective sleeve does not require a deliberate action by the user such as terminating the contact with the patient's skin}
A61B5/150648 (Fully automatically triggered, i.e. the triggering of the protective sleeve does not) appears on 73 US grants and 76 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 73
- Published applications
- 76
- Assignees
- 35
- Inventors
- 122
- Latest grant
- 20 Jan 2026
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| 2011 | 6 | 3 |
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| 2023 | 2 | 1 |
| 2024 | 2 | 2 |
| 2025 | 3 | 1 |
| 2026 | 1 | 0 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Blood sequestration device and method30 Jul 2024US 12,048,541 B2Smiths Medical ASD, Inc.
- Blood sequestration device and method22 May 2025US 2025/0160705 A1ICU Medical, Inc.
- Blood sequestration device and method1 Aug 2024US 2024/0252077 A1Smiths Medical ASD, Inc.
- Safety cannula assembly6 Jun 2024US 2024/0181221 A1Sarstedt AG & Co.
- Blood sequestration device and method26 Jan 2023US 2023/0023330 A1Smiths Medical ASD, Inc.
- Automated medical sample collection and testing for providing blood coagulation indication1 Dec 2022US 2022/0378345 A12Pi-Sigma Corp.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Intravenous catheter insertion device with retractable needle217US 5,407,431 AMed-Design, Inc. · 1995
- Protected needle assembly199US 5,472,430 AVLV Associates · 1995
- Retractable finger lancet195US 4,892,097 ARyder International Corporation · 1990
- Retractable needle medical devices195US 6,179,812 B2MDC Investment Holdings, Inc. · 2001
- Lancet device182US 5,624,458 A1997