H01J 49/04
Arrangements for introducing or extracting samples to be analysed
Official title: Arrangements for introducing or extracting samples to be analysed, e.g. vacuum locks; Arrangements for external adjustment of electron- or ion-optical components
H01J49/04 (Arrangements for introducing or extracting samples to be analysed) appears on 2,922 US grants and 3,052 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H01J- Granted patents
- 2,922
- Published applications
- 3,052
- Assignees
- 977
- Inventors
- 4,417
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 2001 | 39 | 21 |
| 2002 | 47 | 81 |
| 2003 | 67 | 90 |
| 2004 | 86 | 99 |
| 2005 | 66 | 121 |
| 2006 | 88 | 108 |
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| 2019 | 166 | 184 |
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| 2021 | 166 | 206 |
| 2022 | 147 | 144 |
| 2023 | 126 | 149 |
| 2024 | 122 | 170 |
| 2025 | 95 | 110 |
| 2026 | 72 | 61 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Identifying and classifying microorganisms6 Oct 2026US 12,753,428 B2Board of Regents, The University of Texas System
- Automated systems and methods for separating compounds6 Oct 2026US 12,755,950 B2DH Technologies Development Pte. Ltd.
- Exhaust flow boosting for sampling probe for use in mass spectrometry systems and methods6 Oct 2026US 12,755,951 B2DH Technologies Development Pte. Ltd.
- Mass spectrometer6 Oct 2026US 12,755,952 B2YOUNG IN ACE Co., Ltd.
- Systems and methods for recovering organic contaminants from semiconducting wafers29 Sep 2026US 12,749,667 B2Elemental Scientific, Inc.
- Sample support and method for manufacturing sample support1 Oct 2026US 2026/0302151 A1Hamamatsu Photonics K.K.
- Thread patterns for sampler cone24 Sep 2026US 2026/0290774 A1PerkinElmer Scientific Canada ULC
- Sample support and method for manufacturing sample support24 Sep 2026US 2026/0290775 A1Hamamatsu Photonics K.K.
- Method of counting nanoparticle tags in solid samples24 Sep 2026US 2026/0290776 A1Masarykova Univerzita
- Systems and Methods for Purity Calculation for the Compound QC Workflow17 Sep 2026US 2026/0279751 A1DH Technologies Development Pte. Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Microscale fluid handling system662US 5,872,010 ANortheastern University · 1999
- Thermal desorption gas spectrometer467US 5,528,032 AESCO Corporation · 1996
- Integrated nucleic acid analysis system for MALDI-TOF MS405US 5,716,825 AHewlett-Packard Company · 1998
- Integrated planar liquid handling system for maldi-TOF MS258US 5,705,813 AHewlett-Packard Company · 1998
- Automated continuous and random access analytical system248US 5,358,691 AAbbott Laboratories · 1994