A61B 5/15186
Devices loaded with a single lancet, i.e. a single lancet with or
Official title: {Devices loaded with a single lancet, i.e. a single lancet with or without a casing is loaded into a reusable drive device and then discarded after use; drive devices reloadable for multiple use}
A61B5/15186 (Devices loaded with a single lancet, i.e. a single lancet with or) appears on 1,040 US grants and 1,321 published applications in this corpus.
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- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
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.
- 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.
- Medical device inserters and processes of inserting and using medical devices21 Apr 2026US 12,605,186 B2Abbott Diabetes Care Inc.
- Infant lancet assembly10 Sep 2026US 2026/0262978 A1Asahi Polyslider Company, Limited
- Sampling apparatus, sampler, and sampling method16 Jul 2026US 2026/0198817 A1Suzhou Natong Biomed Co., Ltd
- Biomonitoring systems and methods of loading and releasing the same21 May 2026US 2026/0137308 A1One Health Biosensing Inc.
- Needle module for a hand-held device for locally puncturing a human or an animal skin, hand-held device and method for operating a needle module21 May 2026US 2026/0137919 A1MT Derm GmbH
- Lancet30 Apr 2026US 2026/0114766 A1Tianjin Huahong Technology Co., Ltd.
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By later US patents
- Small volume in vitro analyte sensor with diffusible or non-leachable redox mediator1,613US 6,591,125 B1TheraSense, Inc. · 2003
- Medical diagnostic system1,313US 5,279,294 ACascade Medical, Inc. · 1994
- Tissue penetration device1,208US 7,025,774 B2Pelikan Technologies, Inc. · 2006
- Method and apparatus for obtaining blood for diagnostic tests1,021US 6,306,104 B1Abbott Laboratories · 2001
- Glucose medical monitoring system988US 4,637,403 AGarid, Inc. · 1987