C12M 47/02
Separating microorganisms from the culture medium
Official title: {Separating microorganisms from the culture medium; Concentration of biomass (separating microorganisms from their culture media C12N1/02)}
C12M47/02 (Separating microorganisms from the culture medium) appears on 628 US grants and 971 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in C12M- Granted patents
- 628
- Published applications
- 971
- Assignees
- 487
- Inventors
- 1,831
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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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
- Integrated fluid manipulation cartridge543US 6,440,725 B1Cepheid · 2002
- Method for separating analyte from a sample353US 6,893,879 B2Cepheid · 2005
- Electrochemical device for moving particles covered with protein236US 6,972,080 B1Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. · 2005
- Acoustic concentration of particles in fluid flow186US 7,837,040 B2Los Alamos National Security, LLC · 2010
- Manipulation of particles172US 4,743,361 AInternationale Octrooi Maatschappij "Octropa" B.V. · 1988