A61M 5/425
Protruding skin to facilitate piercing
Official title: {Protruding skin to facilitate piercing, e.g. vacuum cylinders, vein immobilising means}
A61M5/425 (Protruding skin to facilitate piercing) appears on 234 US grants and 341 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61M- Granted patents
- 234
- Published applications
- 341
- Assignees
- 129
- Inventors
- 505
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
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| 2024 | 11 | 17 |
| 2025 | 6 | 15 |
| 2026 | 4 | 12 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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- Valved intradermal delivery device and method of intradermally delivering a substance to a patient251US 7,047,070 B2Becton, Dickinson and Company · 2006
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