C40B
Combinatorial chemistry
Official title: COMBINATORIAL CHEMISTRY; LIBRARIES, e.g. CHEMICAL LIBRARIES (in silico combinatorial libraries of nucleic acids, proteins or peptides G16B35/00; in silico combinatorial chemistry G16C20/60)
C40B (Combinatorial chemistry) appears on 6,807 US grants and 9,123 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in C40B- Granted patents
- 6,807
- Published applications
- 9,123
- Assignees
- 2,941
- Inventors
- 15,214
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 4 | 0 |
| 1977 | 2 | 0 |
| 1978 | 1 | 0 |
| 1979 | 2 | 0 |
| 1980 | 2 | 0 |
| 1981 | 2 | 0 |
| 1982 | 2 | 0 |
| 1983 | 0 | 0 |
| 1984 | 3 | 0 |
| 1985 | 4 | 0 |
| 1986 | 7 | 0 |
| 1987 | 9 | 0 |
| 1988 | 11 | 0 |
| 1989 | 10 | 0 |
| 1990 | 4 | 0 |
| 1991 | 8 | 0 |
| 1992 | 23 | 0 |
| 1993 | 28 | 0 |
| 1994 | 36 | 0 |
| 1995 | 49 | 0 |
| 1996 | 74 | 0 |
| 1997 | 114 | 0 |
| 1998 | 206 | 0 |
| 1999 | 183 | 0 |
| 2000 | 257 | 0 |
| 2001 | 345 | 166 |
| 2002 | 397 | 710 |
| 2003 | 373 | 931 |
| 2004 | 372 | 694 |
| 2005 | 296 | 597 |
| 2006 | 264 | 388 |
| 2007 | 208 | 250 |
| 2008 | 205 | 292 |
| 2009 | 153 | 276 |
| 2010 | 206 | 247 |
| 2011 | 175 | 258 |
| 2012 | 135 | 232 |
| 2013 | 128 | 194 |
| 2014 | 163 | 191 |
| 2015 | 164 | 163 |
| 2016 | 179 | 218 |
| 2017 | 144 | 198 |
| 2018 | 164 | 285 |
| 2019 | 201 | 431 |
| 2020 | 237 | 393 |
| 2021 | 234 | 393 |
| 2022 | 209 | 367 |
| 2023 | 240 | 376 |
| 2024 | 208 | 355 |
| 2025 | 231 | 297 |
| 2026 | 135 | 221 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Main groups
Granted patents with any code in the group
- C40B 40/00Libraries per se4,467
- C40B 60/00Apparatus specially adapted for use in combinatorial chemistry or with libraries2,376
- C40B 50/00Methods of creating libraries1,422
- C40B 30/00Methods of screening libraries1,361
- C40B 70/00Tags or labels specially adapted for combinatorial chemistry or libraries496
- C40B 20/00Methods specially adapted for identifying library members282
- C40B 80/00Linkers or spacers specially adapted for combinatorial chemistry or libraries169
- C40B 10/00Directed molecular evolution of macromolecules42
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Recent patents
- Methods for preparing a library of polynucleotide molecules6 Oct 2026US 12,753,405 B2Ultima Genomics, Inc.
- Spatially encoded biological assays6 Oct 2026US 12,753,431 B2Prognosys Biosciences, Inc.
- Detection and prediction of infectious disease6 Oct 2026US 12,753,448 B2Karius, Inc.
- Molecular profiling of tumors6 Oct 2026US 12,754,193 B2Caris MPI, Inc.
- Spatially encoded biological assays29 Sep 2026US 12,747,467 B2Prognosys Biosciences, Inc.
- Biological libraries and methods of preparing and using same8 Oct 2026US 2026/0308575 A1
- Sequence-based high throughput method generating camelids antibodies to cover broad epitopes with high-resolution8 Oct 2026US 2026/0308807 A1Zhejiang Nanomab Technology Center Co. Ltd.
- Linker1 Oct 2026US 2026/0297560 A1PeptiDream Inc., a Japanese body corporate
- Stabilized fibronectin based scaffold molecules1 Oct 2026US 2026/0297811 A1Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
- Compositions and methods for molecular mimicry1 Oct 2026US 2026/0301859 A1Flagship Pioneering Innovations Vii, LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Process for amplifying nucleic acid sequences5,960US 4,683,202 ACetus Corporation · 1987
- Directed evolution of novel binding proteins2,450US 5,223,409 AProtein Engineering Corporation · 1993
- Large scale photolithographic solid phase synthesis of polypeptides and receptor binding screening thereof1,998US 5,143,854 AAffymax Technologies N.V. · 1992
- Array of oligonucleotides on a solid substrate1,585US 5,445,934 AAffymax Technologies N.V. · 1995
- Arrays of materials attached to a substrate1,410US 5,744,305 AAffymetrix, Inc. · 1998