A61B 5/15115
Driving means for propelling the piercing element to pierce the skin
Official title: {Driving means for propelling the piercing element to pierce the skin, e.g. comprising mechanisms based on shape memory alloys, magnetism, solenoids, piezoelectric effect, biased elements, resilient elements, vacuum or compressed fluids}
A61B5/15115 (Driving means for propelling the piercing element to pierce the skin) appears on 1,285 US grants and 1,605 published applications in this corpus.
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Granted patents
Recent patents
- Activation and retraction mechanism for lancing devices6 Oct 2026US 12,751,655 B2Safety Lancet Sweden AB
- Lancing device utilizing tail handle to load and adjust depth18 Aug 2026US 12,708,300 B2Sterilance Medical (Suzhou) Inc.
- Blood collection needle23 Jun 2026US 12,661,040 B2Tianjin Rilifine Medical Device Co., Ltd.
- 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.
- Interstitial Fluid Sampling Device17 Sep 2026US 2026/0272348 A1Samplimy Medical AB
- 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.
- Apparatus and method for animal blood collection13 Aug 2026US 2026/0232423 A1
- Blood Collection Apparatus and Method23 Jul 2026US 2026/0207099 A1Hitachi High-Tech Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- 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
- Medical droplet whole blood and like monitoring1,055US 4,995,402 AThorne, Smith, Astill Technologies, Inc. · 1991
- Method and apparatus for obtaining blood for diagnostic tests1,021US 6,306,104 B1Abbott Laboratories · 2001