G01N 2035/00277
Special precautions to avoid contamination
Official title: {Special precautions to avoid contamination (e.g. enclosures, glove- boxes, sealed sample carriers, disposal of contaminated material)}
G01N2035/00277 (Special precautions to avoid contamination) appears on 374 US grants and 458 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G01N- Granted patents
- 374
- Published applications
- 458
- Assignees
- 224
- Inventors
- 1,005
- Latest grant
- 14 Jul 2026
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| 2002 | 4 | 9 |
| 2003 | 9 | 16 |
| 2004 | 3 | 11 |
| 2005 | 6 | 22 |
| 2006 | 3 | 8 |
| 2007 | 9 | 5 |
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| 2009 | 5 | 14 |
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| 2019 | 17 | 31 |
| 2020 | 19 | 27 |
| 2021 | 23 | 23 |
| 2022 | 21 | 38 |
| 2023 | 14 | 21 |
| 2024 | 15 | 16 |
| 2025 | 22 | 26 |
| 2026 | 15 | 24 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Automatic analyzer14 Jul 2026US 12,681,031 B2Hitachi High-Tech Corporation
- Reagent reservoirs and related systems and methods14 Jul 2026US 12,681,033 B2Illumina, Inc.
- Device and method for accelerated material extraction and detection30 Jun 2026US 12,667,840 B2Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
- Autosampler system with dual rotational axis uncapping30 Jun 2026US 12,669,519 B2Elemental Scientific, Inc.
- Point-of-care medical diagnostic analyzer and devices, systems, and methods for medical diagnostic analysis of samples16 Jun 2026US 12,656,362 B2IDEXX Laboratories, Inc.
- Reagent reservoirs and related systems and methods8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309738 A1Illumina, Inc.
- Systems and methods for autonomous workflow management20 Aug 2026US 2026/0243784 A1Grail, LLC
- Systems and methods for end-to-end material management20 Aug 2026US 2026/0243787 A1Grail, LLC
- Systems and methods for transporting a sample in a laboratory20 Aug 2026US 2026/0243789 A1Grail, LLC
- Piercing Mechanism and Automatic Analyzer Provided With Same6 Aug 2026US 2026/0227422 A1Hitachi High-Tech Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- System for analyzing compounds contained in liquid samples584US 5,489,414 ABoehringer Mannheim GmbH · 1996
- Storage system for test elements255US 5,720,924 ABoehringer Mannheim GmbH · 1998
- Automated continuous and random access analytical system248US 5,358,691 AAbbott Laboratories · 1994
- Storage system for test elements243US 5,863,800 ABoehringer Mannheim GmbH · 1999
- Scheduling operation of an automated analytical system230US 5,646,049 AAbbott Laboratories · 1997