A61B 5/15192
Comprising driving means
Official title: {comprising driving means, e.g. a spring, for retracting the lancet unit into the driving device housing}
A61B5/15192 (Comprising driving means) appears on 545 US grants and 641 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- Assignees
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- Latest grant
- 18 Aug 2026
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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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- 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.
- Medical device inserters and processes of inserting and using medical devices31 Mar 2026US 12,588,928 B2Abbott Diabetes Care Inc.
- Blood collection pen25 Dec 2025US 2025/0387055 A1
- Medical device inserters and processes of inserting and using medical devices16 Oct 2025US 2025/0318764 A1Abbott Diabetes Care Inc.
- Latch mechanism for preventing lancet oscillation in a lancing device2 Oct 2025US 2025/0302351 A1Facet Technologies, LLC
- Blood sampling device and method of using the same24 Jul 2025US 2025/0235135 A1Probus Medical Technologies Inc.
- Medical device inserters and processes of inserting and using medical devices3 Jul 2025US 2025/0213153 A1Abbott Diabetes Care Inc.
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