A61B 5/15149
Arrangement of piercing elements relative to each other
Official title: {Arrangement of piercing elements relative to each other}
A61B5/15149 (Arrangement of piercing elements relative to each other) appears on 361 US grants and 469 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- Latest grant
- 7 Oct 2025
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Lancet needle with alignment and retention notch7 Oct 2025US 12,433,519 B2Facet Technologies, LLC
- Integrated device for self-collecting and automated pre-processing of biological fluids30 Sep 2025US 12,426,815 B2Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona
- Devices and methods for facilitating fluid transport21 May 2024US 11,986,298 B2Intuity Medical, Inc.
- Devices and methods for body fluid sampling and analysis13 Jun 2023US 11,672,452 B2Intuity Medical, Inc.
- Devices and methods for body fluid sampling and analysis12 Jul 2022US 11,382,544 B2Intuity Medical, Inc.
- Blood sampler for collecting a blood sample from a digit4 Jun 2026US 2026/0151060 A1Instituut Voor Tropische Geneeskunde
- Devices and methods for body fluid sampling and analysis2 Apr 2026US 2026/0090746 A1
- Blood glucose management system4 Sep 2025US 2025/0275698 A1POPS! Diabetes Care, Inc.
- Accelerated ergonomic collection of capillary blood19 Jun 2025US 2025/0194976 A1RedDrop Dx, Inc.
- Multi-site body fluid sampling and analysis cartridge4 Apr 2024US 2024/0108259 A1Intuity Medical, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Lancing apparatus for producing a puncture wound1,402US 8,002,785 B2Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc. · 2011
- 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 penetrating tissue956US 7,547,287 B2Pelikan Technologies, Inc. · 2009
- Cassette of lancet cartridges for sampling blood856US 6,036,924 AHewlett-Packard Company · 2000