B01L 2300/161
Control and use of surface tension forces
Official title: Control and use of surface tension forces, e.g. hydrophobic, hydrophilic
B01L2300/161 (Control and use of surface tension forces) appears on 1,545 US grants and 2,457 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B01L- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- 980
- Inventors
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- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 1980 | 1 | 0 |
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| 2002 | 8 | 27 |
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| 2004 | 10 | 33 |
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| 2010 | 28 | 68 |
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| 2020 | 128 | 175 |
| 2021 | 110 | 177 |
| 2022 | 141 | 199 |
| 2023 | 133 | 172 |
| 2024 | 109 | 142 |
| 2025 | 125 | 121 |
| 2026 | 73 | 86 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Gene detection substrate, gene detection chip and method for preparing gene detection sample6 Oct 2026US 12,752,271 B2Boe Technology Group Co., Ltd.
- Femtosecond laser surface processing for controlled fill and targeted deposition6 Oct 2026US 12,752,371 B1Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies, LLC
- Micro-fluidic chip and reaction system29 Sep 2026US 12,746,546 B2Boe Technology Group Co., Ltd.
- Apparatus and method for testing blood29 Sep 2026US 12,748,041 B2Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc.
- Electrowetting-on-dielectric (EWOD) device22 Sep 2026US 12,741,282 B2Cytesi, Inc.
- Assay device and method of use thereof8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307069 A1Truvian Sciences, Inc.
- Microfluidic device for in-field purification, amplification, and detection of dna from mycotoxin-producing fungi8 Oct 2026US 2026/0308701 A1Purdue Research Foundation
- Microfluidic device and sample analysis method1 Oct 2026US 2026/0295588 A1Toppan Printing Co., Ltd.
- Methods for enclosing and analyzing a cell in a fluidic device24 Sep 2026US 2026/0284657 A1Cellanome, Inc.
- Integrated fluidic devices and related methods17 Sep 2026US 2026/0273523 A1HelixBind, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Chip-based isothermal amplification devices and methods651US 6,379,929 B1The Regents of the University of Michigan · 2002
- Apparatus for manipulating droplets by electrowetting-based techniques444US 6,911,132 B2Duke University · 2005
- Fluid circuit components based upon passive fluid dynamics399US 6,296,020 B1BioMicro Systems, Inc. · 2001
- Liquid transport device and method344US 4,233,029 AEastman Kodak Company · 1980
- Spatially distinguished, multiplex nucleic acid analysis of biological specimens325US 10,774,374 B2Spatial Transcriptomics AB and Illumina, Inc. · 2020