F16K 99/0051
Using electrostatic means
Official title: {using electrostatic means}
F16K99/0051 (Using electrostatic means) appears on 174 US grants and 161 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F16K- Granted patents
- 174
- Published applications
- 161
- Assignees
- 99
- Inventors
- 309
- Latest grant
- 14 Jul 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1980 | 1 | 0 |
| 1981 | 0 | 0 |
| 1982 | 0 | 0 |
| 1983 | 0 | 0 |
| 1984 | 0 | 0 |
| 1985 | 0 | 0 |
| 1986 | 2 | 0 |
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| 1995 | 5 | 0 |
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| 1999 | 4 | 0 |
| 2000 | 2 | 0 |
| 2001 | 5 | 4 |
| 2002 | 8 | 16 |
| 2003 | 10 | 9 |
| 2004 | 8 | 8 |
| 2005 | 11 | 15 |
| 2006 | 16 | 12 |
| 2007 | 9 | 11 |
| 2008 | 10 | 23 |
| 2009 | 7 | 5 |
| 2010 | 5 | 8 |
| 2011 | 7 | 7 |
| 2012 | 9 | 6 |
| 2013 | 3 | 7 |
| 2014 | 8 | 3 |
| 2015 | 4 | 4 |
| 2016 | 3 | 5 |
| 2017 | 2 | 3 |
| 2018 | 2 | 1 |
| 2019 | 3 | 2 |
| 2020 | 0 | 5 |
| 2021 | 4 | 3 |
| 2022 | 5 | 1 |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 |
| 2024 | 0 | 2 |
| 2025 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026 | 2 | 0 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Valve element and method for manufacturing valve element10 Mar 2026US 12,571,488 B2Omron Healthcare Co., Ltd.
- Microfluidic valves11 Feb 2025US 12,220,701 B2Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L. P.
- Fluid injection15 Aug 2023US 11,724,237 B2President and Fellows of Harvard College
- Programmable hydraulic resistor array for microfluidic chips13 Dec 2022US 11,524,292 B2International Business Machines Corporation
- Modular microvalves for microfluidic devices and methods of using the same31 Jul 2025US 2025/0242346 A1Redbud Labs, Inc.
- Microelectromechanical actuator structure, component26 Dec 2024US 2024/0429836 A1Robert Bosch GmbH
- Valve element and method for manufacturing valve element6 Jun 2024US 2024/0183464 A1Omron Healthcare Co., Ltd.
- Fluid injection1 Sep 2022US 2022/0274072 A1President and Fellows of Harvard College
- Micro Electrostatic Actuated Pneumatic Driven Motor8 Jul 2021US 2021/0211068 A1Encite LLC
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
- Valve arrangement of microstructured components360US 5,029,805 ADragerwerk Aktiengesellschaft · 1991