A61B 5/15157
Geometry of stocking means or arrangement of piercing elements therein
Official title: {Geometry of stocking means or arrangement of piercing elements therein}
A61B5/15157 (Geometry of stocking means or arrangement of piercing elements therein) appears on 385 US grants and 493 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 493
- Assignees
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- Inventors
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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
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- Multi-site body fluid sampling and analysis cartridge4 Apr 2024US 2024/0108259 A1Intuity Medical, Inc.
- Blood glucose management4 Jan 2024US 2024/0000353 A1POPS! Diabetes Care, Inc.
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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