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Thomas Laffler — 8 Patents

Abbott: 7 patents #994 of 5,509Top 20%
IBIbis Biosciences: 1 patents #42 of 69Top 65%
Vista, CA: #135 of 868 inventorsTop 20%
California: #74,834 of 386,348 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #600,572 of 4,157,543Top 15%
8 Patents All Time
Thomas Laffler has been granted 8 US patents while listed as an inventor at Abbott. The first was granted in 1995 and the most recent in August 2018. Thomas Laffler ranks #600,572 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 14.4%). Patent records list Thomas Laffler in Vista, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1995 to 2018Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2018.peak 31995: 1 patents19951996: 1 patents19961998: 1 patents19981999: 1 patents19992015: 1 patents20152018: 3 patents2018

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–8 of 8 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10052632 Channels with cross-sectional thermal gradients Herbert A. Marble 2018-08-21
10041061 Fungal nucleic acid extraction Gerard J. Gundling, Cristina Ivy, Lendell L. Cummins 2018-08-07
9855559 Microorganism nucleic acid purification from host samples Herbert A. Marble 2018-01-02
9222115 Channels with cross-sectional thermal gradients Herbert A. Marble 2015-12-29
5858652 Detection and amplification of target nucleic acid sequences Stanley R. Bouma, Uwe Spies 1999-01-12 $48,494,000
5792607 Method and kits for amplifying target nucleic acids applicable to both polymerase and ligase chain reactions Keith C. Backman, Sheila B. Bond, John Carrino 1998-08-11 $102,410,000
5484699 Nucleotide sequences useful as type specific probes, PCR primers and LCR probes for the amplification and detection of human papilloma virus, and related kits and methods Stanley R. Bouma, Jeffrey L. Joseph, Ronald L. Marshall 1996-01-16 $31,470,000
5427930 Amplification of target nucleic acids using gap filling ligase chain reaction Larry G. Birkenmeyer, John Carrino, Bruce J. Dille, Hsiang Yun Hu, Jon Kratochvil +3 more 1995-06-27 $57,416,000