A61B 5/15103
Piercing procedure
Official title: {Piercing procedure}
A61B5/15103 (Piercing procedure) appears on 1,583 US grants and 1,986 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 1,583
- Published applications
- 1,986
- Assignees
- 402
- Inventors
- 2,015
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
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| 2026 | 22 | 22 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Analyte sensor device22 Sep 2026US D1,149,048 S1Abbott Diabetes Care Inc. · Design
- Lancing device utilizing tail handle to load and adjust depth18 Aug 2026US 12,708,300 B2Sterilance Medical (Suzhou) Inc.
- Applicator for continuous blood glucose measurement device28 Jul 2026US 12,690,784 B2I-Sens, Inc.
- Applicator for continuous blood glucose measurement device7 Jul 2026US 12,672,801 B2I-Sens, Inc.
- Blood collection needle23 Jun 2026US 12,661,040 B2Tianjin Rilifine Medical Device Co., Ltd.
- High-volume bodily fluid collection devices and related systems and methods8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305994 A1Tasso, Inc.
- Applicator for continuous blood glucose measurement device1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294290 A1I-Sens, Inc.
- Applicator for continuous blood glucose measurement device17 Sep 2026US 2026/0272337 A1I-Sens, Inc.
- Infant lancet assembly10 Sep 2026US 2026/0262978 A1Asahi Polyslider Company, Limited
- Devices, systems and methods for actuation and retraction in fluid collection13 Aug 2026US 2026/0232238 A1Tasso, Inc.
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
- 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
- Tissue penetration device1,208US 7,025,774 B2Pelikan Technologies, Inc. · 2006