B01L 13/02
Cleaning or rinsing apparatus: for receptacle or instruments
Official title: {for receptacle or instruments}
B01L13/02 (Cleaning or rinsing apparatus: for receptacle or instruments) appears on 336 US grants and 364 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B01L- Granted patents
- 336
- Published applications
- 364
- Assignees
- 237
- Inventors
- 838
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 2002 | 6 | 12 |
| 2003 | 6 | 11 |
| 2004 | 11 | 24 |
| 2005 | 12 | 27 |
| 2006 | 8 | 21 |
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| 2019 | 10 | 15 |
| 2020 | 13 | 21 |
| 2021 | 10 | 24 |
| 2022 | 15 | 14 |
| 2023 | 18 | 15 |
| 2024 | 19 | 15 |
| 2025 | 13 | 12 |
| 2026 | 7 | 7 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Preventing dry syringes6 Oct 2026US 12,752,278 B2Thermo Finnigan LLC
- 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.
- Method and device for purifying fluids in a container24 Mar 2026US 12,583,020 B2Stratec SE
- 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.
- Methods and apparatus to reduce biological carryover using induction heating30 Apr 2026US 2026/0115339 A1Abbott Laboratories
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