G01N 15/149
Specially adapted for sorting particles
Official title: specially adapted for sorting particles, e.g. by their size or optical properties
G01N15/149 (Specially adapted for sorting particles) appears on 1,384 US grants and 1,831 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G01N- Granted patents
- 1,384
- Published applications
- 1,831
- Assignees
- 590
- Inventors
- 2,495
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 2 | 0 |
| 1977 | 1 | 0 |
| 1978 | 1 | 0 |
| 1979 | 5 | 0 |
| 1980 | 2 | 0 |
| 1981 | 3 | 0 |
| 1982 | 10 | 0 |
| 1983 | 0 | 0 |
| 1984 | 2 | 0 |
| 1985 | 5 | 0 |
| 1986 | 2 | 0 |
| 1987 | 6 | 0 |
| 1988 | 5 | 0 |
| 1989 | 5 | 0 |
| 1990 | 4 | 0 |
| 1991 | 10 | 0 |
| 1992 | 7 | 0 |
| 1993 | 4 | 0 |
| 1994 | 3 | 0 |
| 1995 | 7 | 0 |
| 1996 | 4 | 0 |
| 1997 | 7 | 0 |
| 1998 | 13 | 0 |
| 1999 | 13 | 0 |
| 2000 | 20 | 0 |
| 2001 | 15 | 4 |
| 2002 | 20 | 41 |
| 2003 | 22 | 43 |
| 2004 | 21 | 28 |
| 2005 | 15 | 41 |
| 2006 | 22 | 43 |
| 2007 | 27 | 34 |
| 2008 | 27 | 32 |
| 2009 | 18 | 40 |
| 2010 | 21 | 29 |
| 2011 | 25 | 52 |
| 2012 | 29 | 62 |
| 2013 | 33 | 68 |
| 2014 | 46 | 77 |
| 2015 | 60 | 55 |
| 2016 | 58 | 96 |
| 2017 | 64 | 87 |
| 2018 | 60 | 94 |
| 2019 | 91 | 98 |
| 2020 | 85 | 119 |
| 2021 | 75 | 141 |
| 2022 | 77 | 123 |
| 2023 | 96 | 135 |
| 2024 | 88 | 118 |
| 2025 | 96 | 114 |
| 2026 | 52 | 57 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Methods for determining a photodetector gain correction factor for optical signals in a flow cytometer6 Oct 2026US 12,754,125 B2Augusta SpinCo Corporation
- Methods for continuous measurement of baseline noise in a flow cytometer and systems for same22 Sep 2026US 12,742,719 B2Becton, Dickinson and Company
- Sperm nuclei and methods of their manufacture and use8 Sep 2026US 12,728,172 B2Inguran, LLC
- Particle sorting apparatus and particle sorting method8 Sep 2026US 12,730,058 B2Sony Group Corporation
- Non-wetted pressure measurement method, control method, device, and analyzer1 Sep 2026US 12,723,937 B2Sony Group Corporation
- Single b-cell cultivation method24 Sep 2026US 2026/0285949 A1Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.
- Microchip, sample sorting kit, and microparticle sorting device24 Sep 2026US 2026/0287492 A9Sony Group Corporation
- Goniometric flow cytometry24 Sep 2026US 2026/0287494 A1
- Particle classification and sorting systems and methods17 Sep 2026US 2026/0276520 A1Engender Technologies Limited
- A cell counting device for counting target cells within a fluid10 Sep 2026US 2026/0266708 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Planar arrays of microparticle-bound polynucleotides635US 6,406,848 B1Lynx Therapeutics, Inc. · 2002
- Microfabricated crossflow devices and methods564US 7,294,503 B2California Institute of Technology · 2007
- Microfabricated cell sorter for chemical and biological materials504US 6,540,895 B1California Institute of Technology · 2003
- Method and compositions for flow cytometric determination of DNA sequences494US 5,736,330 ALuminex Corporation · 1998
- Automated sorting system for matrices with memory480US 6,329,139 B1Discovery Partners International, Inc. · 2001