B01L 2400/0436
Acoustic forces
Official title: acoustic forces, e.g. surface acoustic waves [SAW]
B01L2400/0436 (Acoustic forces) appears on 326 US grants and 507 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B01L- Granted patents
- 326
- Published applications
- 507
- Assignees
- 200
- Inventors
- 840
- Latest grant
- 11 Aug 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1997 | 3 | 0 |
| 1998 | 0 | 0 |
| 1999 | 2 | 0 |
| 2000 | 1 | 0 |
| 2001 | 0 | 1 |
| 2002 | 1 | 10 |
| 2003 | 1 | 14 |
| 2004 | 4 | 12 |
| 2005 | 5 | 10 |
| 2006 | 2 | 6 |
| 2007 | 7 | 7 |
| 2008 | 5 | 12 |
| 2009 | 0 | 5 |
| 2010 | 8 | 15 |
| 2011 | 6 | 10 |
| 2012 | 11 | 9 |
| 2013 | 8 | 13 |
| 2014 | 11 | 10 |
| 2015 | 11 | 15 |
| 2016 | 12 | 28 |
| 2017 | 12 | 22 |
| 2018 | 21 | 27 |
| 2019 | 10 | 39 |
| 2020 | 26 | 33 |
| 2021 | 23 | 46 |
| 2022 | 31 | 52 |
| 2023 | 25 | 31 |
| 2024 | 33 | 37 |
| 2025 | 30 | 32 |
| 2026 | 17 | 11 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Isolation of different extracellular vesicle (EV) subpopulations11 Aug 2026US 12,702,979 B2The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
- Gene transfection system and method14 Jul 2026US 12,680,112 B2Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology
- Method for rapid and large-scale generation of droplets and droplet libraries2 Jun 2026US 12,643,094 B2The Regents of the University of California
- High-throughput thermoacoustic device for separation of fluid dynamical mixtures19 May 2026US 12,629,627 B1
- Non-contact, on-slide fluid mixing19 May 2026US 12,629,690 B2Ventana Medical Systems, Inc.
- Acoustic resonance in microfluidics10 Sep 2026US 2026/0264082 A1Vrije Universiteit Brussel
- Apparatus, Systems And Methods For In Vitro Screening Of Complex Biological Fluids20 Aug 2026US 2026/0243651 A1The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund
- Devices, systems, and methods for separation and/or enrichment of particles in solution23 Jul 2026US 2026/0208190 A1Duke University
- Acoustic separation of a test sample25 Jun 2026US 2026/0177541 A1Instrumentation Laboratory Company
- Acoustic device and method for enhanced sensor detection11 Jun 2026US 2026/0160652 A1The Trustees of Indiana University
Most cited
By later US patents
- Microfabricated reactor427US 5,639,423 AThe Regents of the University of Calfornia · 1997
- Ultra-fast nucleic acid sequencing device and a method for making and using the same339US 6,413,792 B1Eagle Research and Development, Inc. · 2002
- Method and apparatus for acoustically controlling liquid solutions in microfluidic devices300US 6,948,843 B2Covaris, Inc. · 2005
- Microfabricated reactor293US 5,674,742 AThe Regents of the University of California · 1997
- Methods for manipulating moieties in microfluidic systems281US 7,081,192 B1Aviva Biosciences Corporation · 2006