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Michael R. Knapp — 53 Patents

CTCaliper Technologies: 23 patents #5 of 50Top 10%
CSCaliper Life Sciences: 18 patents #4 of 143Top 3%
Canon: 5 patents #9,300 of 19,416Top 50%
MTMolecular Tool: 5 patents #1 of 9Top 15%
OBOrchid Biosciences: 1 patents #16 of 35Top 50%
CUColumbia University: 1 patents #1,151 of 2,492Top 50%
DADanaher: 1 patents #1,472 of 2,950Top 50%
Redwood City, CA: #109 of 5,061 inventorsTop 3%
California: #7,278 of 386,348 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #48,528 of 4,157,543Top 2%
53 Patents All Time
Michael R. Knapp has been granted 53 US patents while listed as an inventor at Caliper Technologies. The first was granted in 1990 and the most recent in November 2021. Michael R. Knapp ranks #48,528 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.2%). Patent records list Michael R. Knapp in Redwood City, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 53 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11162910 Method and apparatus for generating thermal melting curves in a microfluidic device Steven A. Sundberg, Ivor T. Knight, Deborah Boles, Aaron Rulison, Wesley Dong +4 more 2021-11-02
10871460 Method and apparatus for generating thermal melting curves in a microfluidic device Ivor T. Knight, Deborah Boles, Aaron Rulison, Wesley Dong, Andrew Fabans +5 more 2020-12-22 $43,000
10428377 Methods of detecting low copy nucleic acids Jill M. Baker, Andrea W. Chow, Anne R. Kopf-Sill, Michael A. Spaid 2019-10-01
10138517 Manipulation of microparticles in microfluidic systems Tammy Burd Mehta, Anne R. Kopf-Sill, J. Wallace Parce, Andrea W. Chow, Luc Bousse +2 more 2018-11-27
9983155 Method and apparatus for generating thermal melting curves in a microfluidic device Ivor T. Knight, Deborah Boles, Aaron Rulison, Wesley Dong, Andrew Fabans +5 more 2018-05-29 $33,000
9670541 Manipulation of microparticles in microfluidic systems Tammy Burd Mehta, Anne R. Kopf-Sill, J. Wallace Parce, Andrea W. Chow, Luc Bousse +2 more 2017-06-06
9376718 Method and apparatus for generating thermal melting curves in a microfluidic device Steven A. Sundberg, Ivor T. Knight, Deborah Boles, Aaron Rulison, Wesley Dong +5 more 2016-06-28
9101928 Manipulation of microparticles in microfluidic systems Tammy Burd Mehta, Anne R. Kopf-Sill, J. Wallace Parce, Andrea W. Chow, Luc Bousse +2 more 2015-08-11
8900811 Method and apparatus for generating thermal melting curves in a microfluidic device Steven A. Sundberg, Ivor T. Knight, Deborah Boles, Aaron Rulison, Wesley Dong +5 more 2014-12-02 $50,000
8697362 Methods of detecting low copy nucleic acids Jill M. Baker, Andrea W. Chow, Anne R. Kopf-Sill, Michael A. Spaid 2014-04-15
8275554 System for differentiating the lengths of nucleic acids of interest in a sample Jill M. Baker, Andrea W. Chow, Anne R. Kopf-Sill, Michael A. Spaid 2012-09-25
7645581 Determining nucleic acid fragmentation status by coincident detection of two labeled probes Jill M. Baker, Andrea W. Chow, Anne R. Kopf-Sill, Michael A. Spaid 2010-01-12 $3,532,000
7585466 Automatic genotype determination Stephen Lincoln 2009-09-08 $19,247,000
7566538 Sequencing by incorporation J. Wallace Parce, Theo Nikiforov, Tammy Burd Mehta, Anne R. Kopf-Sill, Andrea W. Chow 2009-07-28 $2,585,000
7344865 Sequencing by incorporation J. Wallace Parce, Theo Nikiforov, Tammy Burd Mehta, Anne R. Kopf-Sill, Andrea W. Chow 2008-03-18 $1,932,000
7238323 Microfluidic sequencing systems John Wallace Parce, Luc Bousse, Anne R. Kopf-Sill 2007-07-03 $1,953,000
7105300 Sequencing by incorporation J. Wallace Parce, Theo Nikiforov, Tammy Burd Mehta, Anne R. Kopf-Sill, Andrea W. Chow 2006-09-12 $1,112,000
7001496 Electropipettor and compensation means for electrophoretic bias J. Wallace Parce 2006-02-21 $595,000
6849411 Microfluidic sequencing methods John Wallace Parce, Luc Bousse, Anne R. Kopf-Sill 2005-02-01 $2,712,000
6787088 Controlled fluid transport in microfabricated polymeric substrates John Wallace Parce, Calvin Y. H. Chow, Luc Bousse 2004-09-07 $2,626,000
6670133 Microfluidic device for sequencing by hybridization John Wallace Parce, Luc Bousse, Anne R. Kopf-Sill 2003-12-30 $852,000
6632655 Manipulation of microparticles in microfluidic systems Tammy Burd Mehta, Anne R. Kopf-Sill, J. Wallace Parce, Andrea W. Chow, Luc Bousse +2 more 2003-10-14 $1,136,000
6613513 Sequencing by incorporation J. Wallace Parce, Theo Nikiforov, Tammy Burd Mehta, Anne R. Kopf-Sill, Andrea W. Chow 2003-09-02 $583,000
6547942 Electropipettor and compensation means for electrophoretic bias J. Wallace Parce 2003-04-15 $713,000
6537748 Reagent for nucleic acid typing by primer extension Philip Goelet, Stephen Anderson 2003-03-25 $552,000