C12M 23/50
Means for positioning or orientating the apparatus
Official title: {Means for positioning or orientating the apparatus (C12M41/08 takes precedence)}
C12M23/50 (Means for positioning or orientating the apparatus) appears on 330 US grants and 475 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in C12M- Granted patents
- 330
- Published applications
- 475
- Assignees
- 285
- Inventors
- 1,103
- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
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| 2005 | 2 | 11 |
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| 2018 | 13 | 29 |
| 2019 | 12 | 23 |
| 2020 | 15 | 18 |
| 2021 | 17 | 43 |
| 2022 | 20 | 30 |
| 2023 | 23 | 33 |
| 2024 | 30 | 48 |
| 2025 | 39 | 30 |
| 2026 | 16 | 29 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Cell culture bioreactor174US 5,443,985 AAlberta Research Council · 1995
- Array-type multiple cell injector168US 5,262,128 AThe United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services · 1993
- Automated cell management system for growth and manipulation of cultured cells97US 6,673,595 B2BioCrystal, Ltd. · 2004
- Cell culture propagation apparatus90US 4,228,243 AToray Industries, Inc. · 1980
- Highly efficient cell-cultivating device63US 6,323,022 B1Industrial Technology Research Institute · 2001