G01N 1/2813
Producing thin layers of samples on a substrate
Official title: {Producing thin layers of samples on a substrate, e.g. smearing, spinning-on (G01N1/30 takes precedence)}
G01N1/2813 (Producing thin layers of samples on a substrate) appears on 1,062 US grants and 1,181 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G01N- Granted patents
- 1,062
- Published applications
- 1,181
- Assignees
- 604
- Inventors
- 2,359
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 2004 | 28 | 40 |
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| 2019 | 40 | 73 |
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| 2022 | 55 | 73 |
| 2023 | 51 | 64 |
| 2024 | 34 | 57 |
| 2025 | 67 | 61 |
| 2026 | 41 | 41 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Sample taking device, sample taking system and method of operating a sample taking device6 Oct 2026US 12,754,107 B2LockCon AG
- Systems and methods for accurate layer detection and analysis in charged particle microscopes6 Oct 2026US 12,754,108 B2FEI Company
- Pedestal card and methods for liquid sample control and assay29 Sep 2026US 12,746,544 B2Essenlix Corporation
- Method for analyzing thin film and device for analyzing thin film25 Aug 2026US 12,716,709 B2Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
- Specimen testing system, rack transportation system, rack transportation control device, and rack transportation method18 Aug 2026US 12,710,437 B2Sysmex Corporation
- Automated Tissue Sectioning and Storage System8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309594 A1Clarapath, Inc.
- Method and Device for Producing a Film-Shaped Test Body8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309595 A1Chemspeed Technologies AG
- Smearing apparatus, specimen analysis system, and smear specimen processing method1 Oct 2026US 2026/0298957 A1Sysmex Corporation
- Specimen transfer device and specimen testing system17 Sep 2026US 2026/0276666 A1
- Method and apparatus for applying aggregating sampling to food items10 Sep 2026US 2026/0266792 A1Fremonta Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Methods for fabricating microarrays of biological samples867US 5,807,522 AThe Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University · 1998
- Network review and analysis of computer encoded slides301US 5,793,969 ANeoPath, Inc. · 1998
- Automated staining apparatus271US 5,439,649 ABioGenex Laboratories · 1995
- Method and apparatus for producing position addressable combinatorial libraries187US 5,763,263 A1998
- Methods for fabricating microarrays of biological samples177US 6,110,426 AThe Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University · 2000