B82B 3/00
Manufacture or treatment of nanostructures by manipulation of individual atoms or molecules
Official title: Manufacture or treatment of nanostructures by manipulation of individual atoms or molecules, or limited collections of atoms or molecules as discrete units
B82B3/00 (Manufacture or treatment of nanostructures by manipulation of individual atoms or molecules) appears on 587 US grants and 681 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B82B- Granted patents
- 587
- Published applications
- 681
- Assignees
- 374
- Inventors
- 1,569
- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 1 | 0 |
| 1986 | 0 | 0 |
| 1987 | 0 | 0 |
| 1988 | 0 | 0 |
| 1989 | 2 | 0 |
| 1990 | 2 | 0 |
| 1991 | 4 | 0 |
| 1992 | 4 | 0 |
| 1993 | 4 | 0 |
| 1994 | 5 | 0 |
| 1995 | 4 | 0 |
| 1996 | 0 | 0 |
| 1997 | 3 | 0 |
| 1998 | 3 | 0 |
| 1999 | 6 | 0 |
| 2000 | 2 | 0 |
| 2001 | 7 | 0 |
| 2002 | 4 | 24 |
| 2003 | 11 | 16 |
| 2004 | 10 | 16 |
| 2005 | 8 | 18 |
| 2006 | 19 | 13 |
| 2007 | 11 | 23 |
| 2008 | 18 | 23 |
| 2009 | 13 | 22 |
| 2010 | 19 | 28 |
| 2011 | 15 | 28 |
| 2012 | 10 | 17 |
| 2013 | 14 | 31 |
| 2014 | 26 | 30 |
| 2015 | 25 | 26 |
| 2016 | 24 | 35 |
| 2017 | 36 | 44 |
| 2018 | 33 | 61 |
| 2019 | 38 | 48 |
| 2020 | 41 | 37 |
| 2021 | 43 | 50 |
| 2022 | 34 | 32 |
| 2023 | 33 | 13 |
| 2024 | 22 | 24 |
| 2025 | 20 | 12 |
| 2026 | 13 | 10 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- B82B 3/0009Forming specific nanostructures168
- B82B 3/0042Assembling discrete nanostructures into nanostructural devices72
- B82B 3/0061Methods for manipulating nanostructures55
- B82B 3/0004Apparatus specially adapted for the manufacture or treatment of nanostructural devices or43
- B82B 3/008Processes for improving the physical properties of a device22
- B82B 3/009Characterizing nanostructures, i.e. measuring and identifying electrical or mechanical constants15
- B82B 3/0095Manufacture or treatments or nanostructures not provided for in groups b82b3/0009 -8
- B82B 3/0085Testing nanostructures2
Recent patents
- Cross-linked and recyclable electroconductive carbonaceous nanocompounds and polymers capable of dispersing and stabilising them, method, derived materials and uses15 Sep 2026US 12,735,552 B2Universidad Austral De Chile
- Method for preparing porous aromatic framework membranes based on inorganic salt template method7 Jul 2026US 12,673,297 B2
- Method of nanopore sequencing2 Jun 2026US 12,644,879 B2Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC
- Controlled creation of sub-50 nm defects in 2D materials at low temperature19 May 2026US 12,631,666 B2University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc.
- Nanopore sensor devices12 May 2026US 12,625,130 B2Illumina, Inc.
- Method8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309694 A1Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC
- Method for manufacturing three-dimensional nanostructures having a large aspect ratio3 Sep 2026US 2026/0257910 A1
- Synthetically modifiable ion channels2 Jul 2026US 2026/0184720 A1University of Wyoming
- Apparatus and methods for fabrication of nanopatterned arrays25 Jun 2026US 2026/0177557 A1University of Wyoming
- Quantum dot and method for producing the same21 May 2026US 2026/0139186 A1Toppan Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Methods and devices for fabricating three-dimensional nanoscale structures336US 7,704,684 B2The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois · 2010
- Carbon nanotube devices268US 6,528,020 B1The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University · 2003
- Methods of making, positioning and orienting nanostructures, nanostructure arrays and nanostructure devices234US 6,962,823 B2Nanosys, Inc. · 2005
- Methods of positioning and/or orienting nanostructures233US 6,872,645 B2Nanosys, Inc. · 2005
- Carbon nanotube structures made using catalyst islands206US 6,346,189 B1The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University · 2002