G01N 21/255
Details
Official title: {Details, e.g. use of specially adapted sources, lighting or optical systems}
G01N21/255 (Details) appears on 1,441 US grants and 1,636 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G01N- Granted patents
- 1,441
- Published applications
- 1,636
- Assignees
- 1,031
- Inventors
- 3,636
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 7 | 0 |
| 1977 | 8 | 0 |
| 1978 | 4 | 0 |
| 1979 | 2 | 0 |
| 1980 | 4 | 0 |
| 1981 | 3 | 0 |
| 1982 | 2 | 0 |
| 1983 | 3 | 0 |
| 1984 | 5 | 0 |
| 1985 | 10 | 0 |
| 1986 | 8 | 0 |
| 1987 | 9 | 0 |
| 1988 | 10 | 0 |
| 1989 | 11 | 0 |
| 1990 | 7 | 0 |
| 1991 | 16 | 0 |
| 1992 | 15 | 0 |
| 1993 | 19 | 0 |
| 1994 | 12 | 0 |
| 1995 | 11 | 0 |
| 1996 | 10 | 0 |
| 1997 | 5 | 0 |
| 1998 | 10 | 0 |
| 1999 | 7 | 0 |
| 2000 | 6 | 0 |
| 2001 | 12 | 4 |
| 2002 | 8 | 10 |
| 2003 | 8 | 10 |
| 2004 | 5 | 14 |
| 2005 | 15 | 23 |
| 2006 | 18 | 26 |
| 2007 | 21 | 32 |
| 2008 | 19 | 18 |
| 2009 | 15 | 32 |
| 2010 | 18 | 40 |
| 2011 | 19 | 33 |
| 2012 | 17 | 27 |
| 2013 | 36 | 50 |
| 2014 | 40 | 69 |
| 2015 | 50 | 78 |
| 2016 | 63 | 82 |
| 2017 | 63 | 84 |
| 2018 | 82 | 106 |
| 2019 | 91 | 133 |
| 2020 | 114 | 122 |
| 2021 | 96 | 143 |
| 2022 | 93 | 98 |
| 2023 | 93 | 102 |
| 2024 | 94 | 108 |
| 2025 | 104 | 101 |
| 2026 | 43 | 91 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Background reduction method for soil XRF spectrum based on XRF-EGAN model15 Sep 2026US 12,736,463 B2Yangtze Delta Region Institute (Huzhou), University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
- Portable compound trace detection device8 Sep 2026US 12,730,039 B2
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- Gas sensing surveillance system17 Sep 2026US 2026/0276539 A1Beamonics AB
- Systems and methods for panel design in flow cytometry10 Sep 2026US 2026/0266714 A1Beckman Coulter, Inc.
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By later US patents
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- Manual and automatic probe calibration1,057US 5,823,950 AMasimo Corporation · 1998