B01L 3/0244
Using pins
Official title: {using pins}
B01L3/0244 (Using pins) appears on 264 US grants and 303 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B01L- Granted patents
- 264
- Published applications
- 303
- Assignees
- 169
- Inventors
- 525
- Latest grant
- 24 Feb 2026
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| 2001 | 7 | 14 |
| 2002 | 16 | 23 |
| 2003 | 13 | 38 |
| 2004 | 23 | 23 |
| 2005 | 10 | 27 |
| 2006 | 10 | 27 |
| 2007 | 18 | 18 |
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| 2021 | 10 | 3 |
| 2022 | 3 | 3 |
| 2023 | 1 | 2 |
| 2024 | 3 | 2 |
| 2025 | 2 | 0 |
| 2026 | 1 | 3 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Contact pin printhead for microarray spot printing24 Feb 2026US 12,558,895 B2Analog Devices, Inc.
- Piezoelectric micropipette30 Sep 2025US 12,427,514 B2Cellsorter Kft.
- High resolution systems, kits, apparatus, and methods for screening microorganisms and other high throughput microbiology applications7 Jan 2025US 12,188,075 B2Isolation Bio Inc.
- Apparatus and method for picking biological sample22 Oct 2024US 12,123,888 B2Isolation Bio Inc.
- Methods and systems for aligning dispensing arrays with microfluidic sample arrays27 Aug 2024US 12,070,731 B2Life Technologies Corporation
- Contact pin printhead for microarray spot printing6 Aug 2026US 2026/0225366 A1
- Processing device and processing method30 Apr 2026US 2026/0117158 A1FUJIFILM Corporation
- Devices for droplet deposition and methods of making thereof23 Apr 2026US 2026/0108872 A1Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC
- Methods and systems for aligning dispensing arrays with microfluidic sample arrays7 Nov 2024US 2024/0367137 A1Life Technologies Corporation
- Contact pin printhead for microarray spot printing8 Feb 2024US 2024/0042760 A1Analog Devices, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Methods for fabricating microarrays of biological samples867US 5,807,522 AThe Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University · 1998
- Apparatus for assay, synthesis and storage, and methods of manufacture, use, and manipulation thereof281US 6,716,629 B2BioTrove, Inc. · 2004
- Microfluidic devices and methods223US 6,454,924 B2Zyomyx, Inc. · 2002
- Microfabricated structures for facilitating fluid introduction into microfluidic devices199US 6,090,251 ACaliper Technologies Corp. · 2000
- Microfluidic devices and methods of using same186US 7,476,363 B2Fluidigm Corporation · 2009