B01L 13/00
Cleaning or rinsing apparatus
Official title: {Cleaning or rinsing apparatus}
B01L13/00 (Cleaning or rinsing apparatus) appears on 385 US grants and 427 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B01L- Granted patents
- 385
- Published applications
- 427
- Assignees
- 265
- Inventors
- 974
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 1 | 0 |
| 1977 | 3 | 0 |
| 1978 | 1 | 0 |
| 1979 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980 | 2 | 0 |
| 1981 | 0 | 0 |
| 1982 | 2 | 0 |
| 1983 | 1 | 0 |
| 1984 | 4 | 0 |
| 1985 | 4 | 0 |
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| 1989 | 5 | 0 |
| 1990 | 3 | 0 |
| 1991 | 5 | 0 |
| 1992 | 10 | 0 |
| 1993 | 7 | 0 |
| 1994 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1996 | 4 | 0 |
| 1997 | 1 | 0 |
| 1998 | 4 | 0 |
| 1999 | 3 | 0 |
| 2000 | 1 | 0 |
| 2001 | 3 | 5 |
| 2002 | 6 | 12 |
| 2003 | 6 | 11 |
| 2004 | 11 | 24 |
| 2005 | 12 | 27 |
| 2006 | 8 | 21 |
| 2007 | 9 | 16 |
| 2008 | 9 | 13 |
| 2009 | 8 | 19 |
| 2010 | 7 | 15 |
| 2011 | 8 | 8 |
| 2012 | 10 | 15 |
| 2013 | 13 | 9 |
| 2014 | 16 | 11 |
| 2015 | 11 | 10 |
| 2016 | 17 | 17 |
| 2017 | 11 | 10 |
| 2018 | 9 | 13 |
| 2019 | 10 | 19 |
| 2020 | 15 | 26 |
| 2021 | 10 | 39 |
| 2022 | 24 | 21 |
| 2023 | 23 | 21 |
| 2024 | 26 | 21 |
| 2025 | 20 | 16 |
| 2026 | 10 | 8 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Preventing dry syringes6 Oct 2026US 12,752,278 B2Thermo Finnigan LLC
- Apparatus and method for control of cell processing system15 Sep 2026US 12,734,521 B2Cellares Corporation
- Laboratory well plate washing device and associated method14 Jul 2026US 12,678,797 B2Grenova, Inc.
- Scraping device for removing substances from the interior surface of containers19 May 2026US 12,629,691 B1Dare!! B.V.
- Methods, devices, and apparatus for washing samples on array plates31 Mar 2026US 12,590,281 B2Curiox Biosystems Pte Ltd.
- Cleaning Cartridge for a Microfluidic Device, Microfluidic Device and Method for Cleaning the Microfluidic Device20 Aug 2026US 2026/0241387 A1Robert Bosch GmbH
- Pipette tip washing devices and methods30 Jul 2026US 2026/0216732 A1
- Methods, Devices, and Apparatus for Washing Samples on Array Plates9 Jul 2026US 2026/0193585 A1Curiox Biosystems Pte Ltd.
- 3d cell washer9 Jul 2026US 2026/0194053 A1Agilent Technologies, Inc.
- Pipetting needle inner/outer wall cleaning mechanism and pipetting needle assembly21 May 2026US 2026/0138137 A1Chemlex Pte. Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Multi-channel microfluidic system design with balanced fluid flow distribution305US 6,637,463 B1BioMicro Systems, Inc. · 2003
- Apparatus for assay, synthesis and storage, and methods of manufacture, use, and manipulation thereof281US 6,716,629 B2BioTrove, Inc. · 2004
- Apparatus and method for filling and cleaning channels and inlet ports in microchips used for biological analysis203US 6,787,111 B2Amersham Biosciences (SV) Corp · 2004
- Endoscope cleaner/sterilizer145US 5,443,801 AKew Import/Export Inc. · 1995
- Depositing fluid specimens on substrates, resulting ordered arrays, techniques for deposition of arrays134US 6,269,846 B1Genetic Microsystems, Inc. · 2001