F16K 99/0034
Operating means specially adapted for microvalves
Official title: {Operating means specially adapted for microvalves}
F16K99/0034 (Operating means specially adapted for microvalves) appears on 1,279 US grants and 1,728 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F16K- Granted patents
- 1,279
- Published applications
- 1,728
- Assignees
- 552
- Inventors
- 2,331
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2024 | 37 | 40 |
| 2025 | 40 | 21 |
| 2026 | 19 | 13 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
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- Piezoelectric actuator and microfluidic device28 Jul 2026US 12,696,686 B2Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
- Gravitationally Checked Microfluidic Valve1 Oct 2026US 2026/0298369 A1National Research Council of Canada
- Systems and methods for microfluidic thermal management24 Sep 2026US 2026/0293048 A1Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Agricultural sampling system and related methods17 Sep 2026US 2026/0276619 A1Precision Planting LLC
- High pressure microfluidic valve10 Sep 2026US 2026/0266397 A1LabSmith, Inc.
- Control disk for multiport valve with improved sealing characteristics, gas analyzer, simulating method and computer program product9 Jul 2026US 2026/0194495 A1Valmet Automation Oy
Most cited
By later US patents
- Microfluidic devices for the controlled manipulation of small volumes634US 6,524,456 B1UT-Battelle, LLC · 2003
- 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
- Methods and apparatus for analyzing polynucleotide sequences567US 6,911,345 B2California Institute of Technology · 2005
- Microscale devices and reactions in microscale devices407US 6,057,149 AUniversity of Michigan · 2000