A61B 5/15165
Piercing elements stocked in or on a strip
Official title: {Piercing elements stocked in or on a strip}
A61B5/15165 (Piercing elements stocked in or on a strip) appears on 175 US grants and 200 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 175
- Published applications
- 200
- Assignees
- 27
- Inventors
- 130
- Latest grant
- 7 Oct 2025
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 1 | 0 |
| 1999 | 0 | 0 |
| 2000 | 2 | 0 |
| 2001 | 0 | 0 |
| 2002 | 1 | 2 |
| 2003 | 2 | 27 |
| 2004 | 0 | 11 |
| 2005 | 0 | 2 |
| 2006 | 3 | 19 |
| 2007 | 10 | 36 |
| 2008 | 5 | 16 |
| 2009 | 9 | 21 |
| 2010 | 13 | 11 |
| 2011 | 26 | 12 |
| 2012 | 24 | 18 |
| 2013 | 24 | 6 |
| 2014 | 19 | 8 |
| 2015 | 12 | 7 |
| 2016 | 8 | 1 |
| 2017 | 8 | 1 |
| 2018 | 5 | 1 |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 |
| 2020 | 1 | 1 |
| 2021 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Lancet needle with alignment and retention notch7 Oct 2025US 12,433,519 B2Facet Technologies, LLC
- Lancet needle with alignment and retention notch28 Apr 2020US 10,631,770 B2Facet Technologies, LLC
- Puncturing system and lancet carrier tape23 Jul 2019US 10,357,193 B2Roche Diabetes Care, Inc.
- Lancing device for obtaining samples of body fluid4 Dec 2018US 10,143,407 B2Gerresheimer Regensburg GmbH
- Tissue penetration device10 Apr 2018US 9,937,298 B2Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH
- Lancet needle with alignment and retention notch16 Jul 2020US 2020/0221988 A1Facet Technologies, LLC
- Blood lancet with hygienic tip protection14 Jun 2018US 2018/0160957 A1Roche Diabetes Care, Inc.
- Puncturing system and lancet carrier tape16 Feb 2017US 2017/0042458 A1Roche Diabetes Care, Inc.
- Methods and apparatus for lancet actuation12 May 2016US 2016/0129204 A1Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH
- Lancing Device for Obtaining Samples of Body Fluid5 Nov 2015US 2015/0313514 A1Gerresheimer Regensburg GmbH
Most cited
By later US patents
- Tissue penetration device1,208US 7,025,774 B2Pelikan Technologies, Inc. · 2006
- 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
- Method and apparatus for a multi-use body fluid sampling device with analyte sensing793US 7,198,606 B2Pelikan Technologies, Inc. · 2007
- Sampling module device and method756US 7,041,068 B2Pelikan Technologies, Inc. · 2006