B01L 7/54
Heating or cooling apparatus: using spatial temperature gradients
Official title: {using spatial temperature gradients}
B01L7/54 (Heating or cooling apparatus: using spatial temperature gradients) appears on 260 US grants and 302 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B01L- Granted patents
- 260
- Published applications
- 302
- Assignees
- 171
- Inventors
- 516
- Latest grant
- 4 Aug 2026
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| 2002 | 11 | 28 |
| 2003 | 11 | 14 |
| 2004 | 11 | 13 |
| 2005 | 18 | 15 |
| 2006 | 10 | 22 |
| 2007 | 10 | 12 |
| 2008 | 4 | 17 |
| 2009 | 6 | 13 |
| 2010 | 11 | 19 |
| 2011 | 11 | 11 |
| 2012 | 13 | 10 |
| 2013 | 7 | 12 |
| 2014 | 14 | 13 |
| 2015 | 13 | 10 |
| 2016 | 13 | 12 |
| 2017 | 6 | 12 |
| 2018 | 16 | 14 |
| 2019 | 8 | 16 |
| 2020 | 9 | 6 |
| 2021 | 5 | 8 |
| 2022 | 6 | 1 |
| 2023 | 7 | 9 |
| 2024 | 4 | 5 |
| 2025 | 7 | 6 |
| 2026 | 3 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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