B01F 35/7172
Using capillary forces
Official title: {using capillary forces}
B01F35/7172 (Using capillary forces) appears on 74 US grants and 60 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B01F- Granted patents
- 74
- Published applications
- 60
- Assignees
- 34
- Inventors
- 136
- Latest grant
- 9 Sep 2025
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| 1978 | 1 | 0 |
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| 2000 | 5 | 0 |
| 2001 | 5 | 3 |
| 2002 | 2 | 5 |
| 2003 | 5 | 4 |
| 2004 | 3 | 6 |
| 2005 | 3 | 7 |
| 2006 | 1 | 1 |
| 2007 | 2 | 2 |
| 2008 | 3 | 3 |
| 2009 | 2 | 1 |
| 2010 | 2 | 5 |
| 2011 | 4 | 2 |
| 2012 | 3 | 4 |
| 2013 | 2 | 1 |
| 2014 | 2 | 1 |
| 2015 | 1 | 2 |
| 2016 | 2 | 1 |
| 2017 | 0 | 2 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 2 | 1 |
| 2020 | 1 | 1 |
| 2021 | 0 | 3 |
| 2022 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 3 | 3 |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | 3 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.
Recent patents
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- Microfluidic mixers12 Aug 2025US 12,383,876 B2Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L. P.
- Liquid bridge and system8 Jul 2025US 12,350,671 B2Stokes Bio Limited
- Capillary tube droplet generation systems and methods2 Jul 2024US 12,023,637 B2
- System for processing biological sample3 Oct 2023US 11,772,096 B2Stokes Bio Limited
- Microfluidic mixers20 Nov 2025US 2025/0352963 A1Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L. P.
- Microfluidic mixers30 Nov 2023US 2023/0381723 A1Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L. P.
- Liquid bridge and system9 Nov 2023US 2023/0356227 A1Stokes Bio Limited
- Gas infuser for liquids3 Aug 2023US 2023/0241562 A1Bunn-O-Matic Corporation
- Capillary tube droplet generation systems and methods23 Sep 2021US 2021/0291129 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Capillary flow device951US 4,963,498 ABiotrack, Inc. · 1990
- Moving microdroplets561US 6,130,098 AThe Regents of the University of Michigan · 2000
- Capillary flow device522US 4,756,884 ABiotrack, Inc. · 1988
- Microscale devices and reactions in microscale devices407US 6,057,149 AUniversity of Michigan · 2000
- Fluid circuit components based upon passive fluid dynamics399US 6,296,020 B1BioMicro Systems, Inc. · 2001