G02B 26/005
Based on electrowetting
Official title: {based on electrowetting}
G02B26/005 (Based on electrowetting) appears on 1,127 US grants and 1,288 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
- 1,127
- Published applications
- 1,288
- Assignees
- 333
- Inventors
- 1,935
- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 1983 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1988 | 0 | 0 |
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| 2002 | 5 | 3 |
| 2003 | 6 | 12 |
| 2004 | 3 | 11 |
| 2005 | 13 | 22 |
| 2006 | 8 | 45 |
| 2007 | 27 | 69 |
| 2008 | 32 | 60 |
| 2009 | 42 | 59 |
| 2010 | 46 | 61 |
| 2011 | 28 | 46 |
| 2012 | 39 | 61 |
| 2013 | 65 | 110 |
| 2014 | 74 | 97 |
| 2015 | 90 | 95 |
| 2016 | 92 | 57 |
| 2017 | 88 | 60 |
| 2018 | 76 | 55 |
| 2019 | 93 | 64 |
| 2020 | 56 | 72 |
| 2021 | 46 | 83 |
| 2022 | 65 | 42 |
| 2023 | 44 | 43 |
| 2024 | 34 | 28 |
| 2025 | 29 | 24 |
| 2026 | 22 | 6 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Display device and manufacturing method thereof19 May 2026US 12,631,932 B2E Ink Holdings Inc.
- Device for applying voltage to liquid8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309975 A1Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
- Apparatus for applying voltage to liquid and method for manufacturing same24 Sep 2026US 2026/0287883 A1Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
- Device and a method of manufacturing a device, such as a liquid lens, with bonds configured to fracture at the same burst pressure10 Sep 2026US 2026/0267038 A1Corning Incorporated
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Actuators for microfluidics without moving parts497US 6,565,727 B1Nanolytics, Inc. · 2003
- Apparatus for manipulating droplets by electrowetting-based techniques444US 6,911,132 B2Duke University · 2005
- Electro-wetting displays426US 7,420,549 B2E Ink Corporation · 2008
- Method, apparatus and article for microfluidic control via electrowetting, for chemical, biochemical and biological assays and the like324US 7,163,612 B2Keck Graduate Institute · 2007
- Lens with variable focus284US 6,369,954 B1Universite Joseph Fourier · 2002