G01N 15/1404
Handling flow
Official title: Handling flow, e.g. hydrodynamic focusing
G01N15/1404 (Handling flow) appears on 1,273 US grants and 1,483 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G01N- Granted patents
- 1,273
- Published applications
- 1,483
- Assignees
- 539
- Inventors
- 2,303
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 3 | 0 |
| 1977 | 1 | 0 |
| 1978 | 2 | 0 |
| 1979 | 1 | 0 |
| 1980 | 1 | 0 |
| 1981 | 1 | 0 |
| 1982 | 12 | 0 |
| 1983 | 2 | 0 |
| 1984 | 2 | 0 |
| 1985 | 2 | 0 |
| 1986 | 1 | 0 |
| 1987 | 6 | 0 |
| 1988 | 8 | 0 |
| 1989 | 6 | 0 |
| 1990 | 2 | 0 |
| 1991 | 13 | 0 |
| 1992 | 13 | 0 |
| 1993 | 6 | 0 |
| 1994 | 5 | 0 |
| 1995 | 9 | 0 |
| 1996 | 9 | 0 |
| 1997 | 18 | 0 |
| 1998 | 11 | 0 |
| 1999 | 17 | 0 |
| 2000 | 10 | 0 |
| 2001 | 20 | 6 |
| 2002 | 14 | 30 |
| 2003 | 19 | 21 |
| 2004 | 14 | 22 |
| 2005 | 11 | 35 |
| 2006 | 13 | 20 |
| 2007 | 16 | 28 |
| 2008 | 19 | 35 |
| 2009 | 16 | 42 |
| 2010 | 29 | 25 |
| 2011 | 26 | 34 |
| 2012 | 29 | 42 |
| 2013 | 36 | 53 |
| 2014 | 44 | 72 |
| 2015 | 41 | 67 |
| 2016 | 53 | 69 |
| 2017 | 66 | 86 |
| 2018 | 72 | 103 |
| 2019 | 79 | 97 |
| 2020 | 96 | 124 |
| 2021 | 86 | 80 |
| 2022 | 60 | 100 |
| 2023 | 63 | 100 |
| 2024 | 73 | 77 |
| 2025 | 69 | 66 |
| 2026 | 48 | 49 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- G01N 15/1409Handling samples281
- G01N 2015/1413Hydrodynamic focussingIndexing code198
- G01N 2015/1415Control of particle positionIndexing code183
- G01N 2015/1406Control of droplet pointIndexing code143
- G01N 2015/142Acoustic or ultrasonic focussingIndexing code109
- G01N 2015/1422Electrical focussingIndexing code27
- G01N 2015/1418Eliminating clogging of debrisIndexing code21
Recent patents
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- System and method for deforming and analyzing particles8 Sep 2026US 12,730,057 B2The Regents of the University of California
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- Semiconductor light reception1 Oct 2026US 2026/0304969 A1Illumina, Inc.
- Pollution Protected Sensor Units24 Sep 2026US 2026/0287477 A1Belimo Holding AG
- Microchip, sample sorting kit, and microparticle sorting device24 Sep 2026US 2026/0287492 A9Sony Group Corporation
- Analyzing flow cytometers exhibiting reduced sample carryover and methods of using the same24 Sep 2026US 2026/0287493 A1
- Point-of-care medical diagnostic analyzer and devices, systems, and methods for medical diagnostic analysis of samples24 Sep 2026US 2026/0287603 A1IDEXX Laboratories, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Microfabricated crossflow devices and methods564US 7,294,503 B2California Institute of Technology · 2007
- Device and method for pressure-driven plug transport and reaction451US 7,129,091 B2The University of Chicago · 2006
- Focusing of microparticles in microfluidic systems442US 6,592,821 B1Caliper Technologies Corp. · 2003
- Focusing of microparticles in microfluidic systems377US 6,506,609 B1Caliper Technologies Corp. · 2003
- Methods for making single molecule arrays355US 8,133,719 B2Callida Genomics, Inc. · 2012