B01L 3/502792
For moving individual droplets on a plate
Official title: {for moving individual droplets on a plate, e.g. by locally altering surface tension}
B01L3/502792 (For moving individual droplets on a plate) appears on 702 US grants and 1,100 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B01L- Granted patents
- 702
- Published applications
- 1,100
- Assignees
- 332
- Inventors
- 1,600
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2024 | 48 | 67 |
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| 2026 | 34 | 24 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Actuators for microfluidics without moving parts497US 6,565,727 B1Nanolytics, Inc. · 2003
- Method and apparatus for programmable fluidic processing487US 6,294,063 B1Board of Regents, The University of Texas System · 2001
- Apparatus for manipulating droplets by electrowetting-based techniques444US 6,911,132 B2Duke University · 2005
- Method and apparatus for dielectrophoretic manipulation of chemical species395US 4,390,403 A1983
- Method, apparatus and article for microfluidic control via electrowetting, for chemical, biochemical and biological assays and the like324US 7,163,612 B2Keck Graduate Institute · 2007