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The glucose meter is a device that monitors blood sugar levels with speed, convenience and accuracy, which plays an important role in monitoring the human body’s health. Glucose meter related technique that is used to monitor blood glucose level conveniently and accurately has attracted great attentions and developed fast due to a rapid increase of diabetes patients in recent years, the research of related fields of glucose meter has become a research hotspot, which has high academic value and extremely wide application prospect. In this paper, 4,332 glucose meter related patents retrieved in the patent information analysis and patent analysis platform Innography are analyzed, including the annual trends of patent application and authorization, the inventor locations, countries/regions that receive patent application, the technology life cycle, patent distribution based on cooperative patent classification, as well as patent assignees, in order to figure out the overall picture of patent output, the technical maturity, primary technique related, institutions involved in the field of glucose meter. The results showed that the development of glucose meter related technique has entered a stable stage after 15 years’ rapid improvement; Roche, Johnson & Johnson and abbott laboratories and other global market share of higher companies are a large number of related patent applications, to achieve the purpose of using patent barriers of market monopoly; the United States has a strong research and application advantage in the area of glucose meter, which has the strongest R & D capability and the highest power in the world; China lacks world leading enterprise due to the deconcentration of mastered techniques despite a large number of patents; furthermore, many R & D activities are carried out in China’s universities and research institutes, and China’s glucose meter market in the future has a very good application prospects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]