C12M 21/18
Apparatus specially designed for the use of free, immobilized or carrier-bound enzymes
Official title: {Apparatus specially designed for the use of free, immobilized or carrier-bound enzymes}
C12M21/18 (Apparatus specially designed for the use of free, immobilized or carrier-bound enzymes) appears on 265 US grants and 290 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in C12M- Granted patents
- 265
- Published applications
- 290
- Assignees
- 246
- Inventors
- 869
- Latest grant
- 10 Feb 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 2 | 0 |
| 1977 | 4 | 0 |
| 1978 | 1 | 0 |
| 1979 | 5 | 0 |
| 1980 | 5 | 0 |
| 1981 | 9 | 0 |
| 1982 | 7 | 0 |
| 1983 | 1 | 0 |
| 1984 | 7 | 0 |
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| 1991 | 9 | 0 |
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| 2002 | 1 | 0 |
| 2003 | 1 | 2 |
| 2004 | 0 | 2 |
| 2005 | 2 | 5 |
| 2006 | 0 | 0 |
| 2007 | 3 | 3 |
| 2008 | 0 | 1 |
| 2009 | 1 | 3 |
| 2010 | 2 | 3 |
| 2011 | 2 | 7 |
| 2012 | 1 | 5 |
| 2013 | 5 | 13 |
| 2014 | 2 | 19 |
| 2015 | 5 | 31 |
| 2016 | 24 | 23 |
| 2017 | 14 | 38 |
| 2018 | 19 | 19 |
| 2019 | 19 | 16 |
| 2020 | 17 | 14 |
| 2021 | 9 | 12 |
| 2022 | 12 | 13 |
| 2023 | 3 | 20 |
| 2024 | 9 | 15 |
| 2025 | 11 | 9 |
| 2026 | 3 | 17 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Intravaginal culture incubation container and method10 Feb 2026US 12,544,204 B2INVO Fertility, Inc.
- Methods and systems for T cell expansion6 Jan 2026US 12,516,120 B2Georgia Tech Research Corporation
- Immobilized enzymes for bioelectrocatalysis6 Jan 2026US 12,516,311 B2Anodyne Chemistries, Inc.
- Conjugation device and method for producing conjugates30 Sep 2025US 12,428,616 B2Genequantum Healthcare (Suzhou) Co., Ltd.
- Methods for heat-assisted enzyme digestion9 Sep 2025US 12,411,064 B2Waters Technologies Corporation
- Method for wet-milling and related control system1 Oct 2026US 2026/0297495 A1Novozymes A/S
- Method for treating a lignocellulosic biomass24 Sep 2026US 2026/0286398 A1Ifp Energies Nouvelles
- Improved methods of cell-free synthesis17 Sep 2026US 2026/0275396 A1
- Photosynthetic microorganism culture method and associated device13 Aug 2026US 2026/0234519 A1Carbonworks
- Hybrid composite for tuning local nanoactuation over enzyme activity, without tuning mnp anisotropy30 Jul 2026US 2026/0218161 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Vivo refillable glucose sensor900US 4,986,271 AUniversity of New Mexico · 1991
- Method and system for determining bioactive substances458US 5,411,866 ANational Research Council of Canada · 1995
- Enzyme electrode and method for dextran analysis456US 4,552,840 ACalifornia and Hawaiian Sugar Company · 1985
- Glucose sensor with gel-immobilized glucose oxidase and gluconolactonase407US 5,082,786 ANEC Corporation · 1992
- Enzymatic processes258US 4,318,784 ANational Research Development Corporation · 1982