A61M 5/3287
Accessories for bringing the needle into the body
Official title: {Accessories for bringing the needle into the body; Automatic needle insertion (A61M5/20, A61M5/31525 take precedence)}
A61M5/3287 (Accessories for bringing the needle into the body) appears on 757 US grants and 991 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61M- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 991
- Assignees
- 371
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- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
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| 2026 | 13 | 13 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Delivery devices for administering drugs29 Sep 2026US 12,746,343 B2Amgen Inc.
- Drug delivery device assembly and accessory for drug delivery device15 Sep 2026US 12,734,305 B2Amgen Inc.
- Needle guides for a sonographic imaging device25 Aug 2026US 12,714,390 B2C. R. Bard, Inc.
- Drug delivery device assembly and accessory for drug delivery device11 Aug 2026US 12,702,764 B2Amgen Inc.
- Field-chargeable transcutaneous drug delivery system21 Jul 2026US 12,685,813 B2Zyno Medical, LLC
- Needle light pipe1 Oct 2026US 2026/0295175 A1Groton Consulting LLC
- Patient-specific needle guide1 Oct 2026US 2026/0295176 A1Board of Regents, The University of Texas System
- On-body injection device3 Sep 2026US 2026/0257008 A1Shl Medical AG
- Drug-containing devices, suprachoroidal space implants, and adapters for injection6 Aug 2026US 2026/0224399 A1Bejing Sightnovo Medical Technology Co., Ltd
- Injection Apparatus and Method23 Jul 2026US 2026/0207841 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Tissue penetrating device and methods for using same1,125US 7,226,450 B2Board of Regents, The University of Texas Systems · 2007
- Dermally affixed injection device921US 5,931,814 AHoffmann-La Roche Inc. · 1999
- Device and method for less forceful tissue puncture854US 10,219,832 B2Actuated Medical, Inc. · 2019
- Transcutaneous inserter for low-profile infusion sets803US 7,052,483 B2Animas Corporation · 2006
- Insertion device for an insertion set and method of using the same755US 7,056,302 B2Sterling Medivations, Inc. · 2006