C12M 29/02
Percolation
Official title: {Percolation}
C12M29/02 (Percolation) appears on 138 US grants and 173 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in C12M- Granted patents
- 138
- Published applications
- 173
- Assignees
- 126
- Inventors
- 423
- Latest grant
- 17 Mar 2026
Filings by year
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| 2002 | 6 | 3 |
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| 2004 | 6 | 6 |
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| 2006 | 3 | 5 |
| 2007 | 3 | 3 |
| 2008 | 1 | 7 |
| 2009 | 0 | 12 |
| 2010 | 7 | 13 |
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| 2019 | 1 | 2 |
| 2020 | 4 | 2 |
| 2021 | 1 | 2 |
| 2022 | 2 | 16 |
| 2023 | 5 | 8 |
| 2024 | 5 | 4 |
| 2025 | 6 | 5 |
| 2026 | 1 | 2 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Bioprocessing installation14 Oct 2025US 12,441,975 B2Sartorius Stedim Biotech GmbH
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- Biological and Chemical Process Utilizing Chemoautotrophic Microorganisms for the Chemosynthetic Fixation of Carbon Dioxide and/or Other Inorganic Carbon Sources into Organic Compounds and the Generation of Additional Useful Products14 Aug 2025US 2025/0257374 A1Kiverdi, Inc.
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By later US patents
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- Method and apparatus for aseptic growth or processing of biomass103US 6,245,555 B1The Penn State Research Foundation · 2001
- Growing cells in a reservoir formed of a flexible sterile plastic liner95US 6,709,862 B2The Penn State Research Foundation · 2004
- Multi-bioreactor hollow fiber cell propagation system and method72US 5,656,421 AUniSyn Technologies, Inc. · 1997
- Hollow fiber cell propagation system and method70US 5,126,238 AUniSyn Fibertec Corporation · 1992