A61B 5/15144
Comprising driving means
Official title: {comprising driving means, e.g. a spring, for retracting the piercing unit into the housing}
A61B5/15144 (Comprising driving means) appears on 313 US grants and 394 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 313
- Published applications
- 394
- Assignees
- 136
- Inventors
- 521
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
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| 2004 | 2 | 15 |
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| 2023 | 7 | 18 |
| 2024 | 9 | 18 |
| 2025 | 12 | 14 |
| 2026 | 7 | 7 |
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