F15C 5/00
Manufacture of fluid circuit elements
Official title: Manufacture of fluid circuit elements; Manufacture of assemblages of such elements {integrated circuits}
F15C5/00 (Manufacture of fluid circuit elements) appears on 453 US grants and 244 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F15C- Granted patents
- 453
- Published applications
- 244
- Assignees
- 195
- Inventors
- 646
- Latest grant
- 7 Oct 2025
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 2 | 0 |
| 1977 | 4 | 0 |
| 1978 | 3 | 0 |
| 1979 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980 | 4 | 0 |
| 1981 | 2 | 0 |
| 1982 | 0 | 0 |
| 1983 | 0 | 0 |
| 1984 | 1 | 0 |
| 1985 | 4 | 0 |
| 1986 | 4 | 0 |
| 1987 | 3 | 0 |
| 1988 | 5 | 0 |
| 1989 | 7 | 0 |
| 1990 | 3 | 0 |
| 1991 | 8 | 0 |
| 1992 | 6 | 0 |
| 1993 | 13 | 0 |
| 1994 | 10 | 0 |
| 1995 | 8 | 0 |
| 1996 | 8 | 0 |
| 1997 | 8 | 0 |
| 1998 | 14 | 0 |
| 1999 | 30 | 0 |
| 2000 | 31 | 0 |
| 2001 | 25 | 11 |
| 2002 | 24 | 26 |
| 2003 | 28 | 35 |
| 2004 | 31 | 26 |
| 2005 | 22 | 37 |
| 2006 | 33 | 15 |
| 2007 | 16 | 22 |
| 2008 | 14 | 16 |
| 2009 | 14 | 5 |
| 2010 | 9 | 17 |
| 2011 | 13 | 4 |
| 2012 | 12 | 6 |
| 2013 | 7 | 2 |
| 2014 | 5 | 3 |
| 2015 | 3 | 6 |
| 2016 | 3 | 4 |
| 2017 | 4 | 1 |
| 2018 | 4 | 1 |
| 2019 | 1 | 2 |
| 2020 | 2 | 2 |
| 2021 | 2 | 0 |
| 2022 | 1 | 2 |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.
Recent patents
- Apparatus, system, and method using immiscible-fluid-discrete-volumes7 Oct 2025US 12,435,367 B2Applied Biosystems, LLC
- Microfluidic valves and channels and minifluidic valves and channels enabled soft robotic device, apparel, and method11 Jun 2024US 12,005,593 B2
- Device and method for making discrete volumes of a first fluid in contact with a second fluid, which are immiscible with each other3 May 2022US 11,319,585 B2Applied Biosystems, LLC
- Apparatus, system, and method using immiscible-fluid-discrete-volumes2 Nov 2021US 11,162,137 B2Applied Biosystems, LLC
- Bimetal valve with integral fuse12 Oct 2021US 11,143,325 B1Robertshaw Controls Company
- Microfluidic valves and channels and minifluidic valves and channels enabled soft robotic device, apparel, and method1 Feb 2024US 2024/0033939 A1
- Device and method for making discrete volumes of a first fluid in contact with a second fluid, which are immiscible with each other8 Dec 2022US 2022/0389499 A1Applied Biosystems, LLC
- Apparatus, system, and method using immiscible-fluid-discrete-volumes3 Feb 2022US 2022/0033896 A1Applied Biosystems, LLC
- Method and apparatus for sorting particles29 Oct 2020US 2020/0338601 A1Cytonome/St, LLC
- Device and method for making discrete volumes of a first fluid in contact with a second fluid, which are immiscible with each other14 May 2020US 2020/0149099 A1Applied Biosystems, LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Microfabricated elastomeric valve and pump systems619US 6,408,878 B1California Institute of Technology · 2002
- Methods and apparatus for analyzing polynucleotide sequences612US 6,818,395 B1California Institute of Technology · 2004
- Parallel reaction cassette and associated devices590US 5,863,502 ASarnoff Corporation · 1999
- Methods and apparatus for analyzing polynucleotide sequences567US 6,911,345 B2California Institute of Technology · 2005
- Moving microdroplets561US 6,130,098 AThe Regents of the University of Michigan · 2000