C40B 20/04
Identifying library members by means of a tag, label, or other readable
Official title: Identifying library members by means of a tag, label, or other readable or detectable entity associated with the library members, e.g. decoding processes
C40B20/04 (Identifying library members by means of a tag, label, or other readable) appears on 192 US grants and 337 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in C40B- Granted patents
- 192
- Published applications
- 337
- Assignees
- 163
- Inventors
- 547
- Latest grant
- 18 Aug 2026
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| 2026 | 11 | 15 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Fragmentation of DNA20 Aug 2026US 2026/0242865 A1New England Biolabs, Inc.
- Directed evolution of engineered virus-like particles (evlps)23 Jul 2026US 2026/0209747 A1President and Fellows of Harvard College
- Kinase/phosphatase substrate analysis and compositions using spectrally encoded microbeads23 Jul 2026US 2026/0209823 A1CZ Biohub SF, LLC
- Platform for discovery and analysis of therapeutic agents23 Jul 2026US 2026/0209993 A1Illumina, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Massively parallel sequencing of sorted polynucleotides492US 5,695,934 ALynx Therapeutics, Inc. · 1997
- Combinatorial decoding of random nucleic acid arrays391US 6,620,584 B1Illumina, Inc. · 2003
- Method of sorting polynucleotides322US 5,863,722 ALynx Therapeutics, Inc. · 1999
- Compositions for sorting polynucleotides241US 6,140,489 ALynx Therapeutics, Inc. · 2000
- Combinatorial decoding of random nucleic acid arrays171US 7,166,431 B2Illumina, Inc. · 2007