G01Q 30/025
Optical microscopes coupled with spm
Official title: {Optical microscopes coupled with SPM}
G01Q30/025 (Optical microscopes coupled with spm) appears on 109 US grants and 80 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G01Q- Granted patents
- 109
- Published applications
- 80
- Assignees
- 69
- Inventors
- 244
- Latest grant
- 9 Jun 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
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- Atomic force microscope with optional replaceable fluid cell88US 4,935,634 AThe Regents of the University of California · 1990
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