A61B 5/15105
Purely manual piercing, i.e. the user pierces the skin without the assistance
Official title: {Purely manual piercing, i.e. the user pierces the skin without the assistance of any driving means or driving devices}
A61B5/15105 (Purely manual piercing, i.e. the user pierces the skin without the assistance) appears on 253 US grants and 325 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 253
- Published applications
- 325
- Assignees
- 141
- Inventors
- 482
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
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| 1983 | 1 | 0 |
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| 2001 | 4 | 2 |
| 2002 | 7 | 7 |
| 2003 | 11 | 11 |
| 2004 | 3 | 9 |
| 2005 | 8 | 9 |
| 2006 | 2 | 5 |
| 2007 | 5 | 10 |
| 2008 | 2 | 22 |
| 2009 | 3 | 17 |
| 2010 | 7 | 22 |
| 2011 | 6 | 11 |
| 2012 | 16 | 13 |
| 2013 | 7 | 13 |
| 2014 | 6 | 29 |
| 2015 | 13 | 11 |
| 2016 | 20 | 17 |
| 2017 | 14 | 23 |
| 2018 | 13 | 13 |
| 2019 | 15 | 17 |
| 2020 | 6 | 12 |
| 2021 | 10 | 13 |
| 2022 | 10 | 11 |
| 2023 | 5 | 12 |
| 2024 | 7 | 7 |
| 2025 | 2 | 5 |
| 2026 | 5 | 4 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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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
- Device and method for enchancing transdermal sampling1,134US 6,219,574 B1Alza Corporation · 2001
- Small volume in vitro analyte sensor1,028US 6,551,494 B1TheraSense, Inc. · 2003
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