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Michael Lucero — 32 Patents

FLFluidigm: 17 patents #7 of 116Top 7%
1G10X Genomics: 9 patents #41 of 231Top 20%
BLBio-Rad Laboratories: 4 patents #191 of 739Top 30%
University of California: 1 patents #8,022 of 18,278Top 45%
ABApplied Biosystems: 1 patents #563 of 690Top 85%
South San Francisco, CA: #63 of 1,066 inventorsTop 6%
California: #15,919 of 386,348 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #110,428 of 4,157,543Top 3%
32 Patents All Time
Michael Lucero has been granted 32 US patents while listed as an inventor at Fluidigm. The first was granted in 2005 and the most recent in August 2025. Michael Lucero ranks #110,428 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.7%). Patent records list Michael Lucero in South San Francisco, CA, US.

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Showing 1–25 of 32 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12378607 Method for transposase-mediated spatial tagging and analyzing genomic DNA in a biological sample Michael Schnall-Levin, Tarjei Sigurd Mikkelsen, Patrik Stahl, Jonas Frisen, Maja Marklund +1 more 2025-08-05
12344892 Method for transposase-mediated spatial tagging and analyzing genomic DNA in a biological sample Michael Schnall-Levin, Tarjei Sigurd Mikkelsen, Patrik Stahl, Jonas Frisen, Maja Marklund +1 more 2025-07-01
12270077 Method for transposase-mediated spatial tagging and analyzing genomic DNA in a biological sample Michael Schnall-Levin, Tarjei Sigurd Mikkelsen, Patrik Stahl, Jonas Frisen, Maja Marklund +1 more 2025-04-08
12110549 Methods and systems for processing polynucleotides Phillip Belgrader, Zachary Bent, Rajiv Bharadwaj, Vijay Kumar Sreenivasa Gopalan, Josephine Harada +18 more 2024-10-08 $5,828,000
12097495 Methods and compositions for detecting genetic material Benjamin Hindson, Serge Saxonov, Phillip Belgrader, Kevin Ness, Billy W. Colston, Jr. +5 more 2024-09-24
12084716 Methods and systems for processing polynucleotides Phillip Belgrader, Zachary Bent, Rajiv Bharadwaj, Vijay Kumar Sreenivasa Gopalan, Josephine Harada +18 more 2024-09-10 $15,529,000
11519033 Method for transposase-mediated spatial tagging and analyzing genomic DNA in a biological sample Michael Schnall-Levin, Tarjei Sigurd Mikkelsen, Patrik Stahl, Jonas Frisen, Maja Marklund +1 more 2022-12-06 $62,668,000
11499181 Analysis of nucleic acids John Frederick Regan, Serge Saxonov, Benjamin Hindson, Phillip Belgrader, Simant Dube +5 more 2022-11-15
11180805 Methods and systems for processing polynucleotides Tarjei Sigurd Mikkelsen, Katherine Pfeiffer, Stephane Claude Boutet 2021-11-23 $176,909,000
10858702 Methods and systems for processing polynucleotides Tarjei Sigurd Mikkelsen, Katherine Pfeiffer, Stephane Claude Boutet 2020-12-08 $163,179,000
10815525 Methods and systems for processing polynucleotides Tarjei Sigurd Mikkelsen, Katherine Pfeiffer, Stephane Claude Boutet 2020-10-27 $77,480,000
10167509 Analysis of nucleic acids John Frederick Regan, Serge Saxonov, Benjamin Hindson, Phillip Belgrader, Simant Dube +5 more 2019-01-01
10131934 Thermal reaction device and method for using the same Marc A. Unger, Ian D. Manger, Yong Yi, Emily Miyashita-Lin, Anja Wienecke +1 more 2018-11-20 $4,059,000
9643178 Microfluidic device with reaction sites configured for blind filling Marc A. Unger, Ian D. Manger, Yong Yi, Emily Miyashita-Lin, Anja Wienecke +1 more 2017-05-09 $668,000
9644235 Methods for detection and quantification of nucleic acid or protein targets in a sample Marc A. Unger 2017-05-09 $668,000
9150913 Thermal reaction device and method for using the same Lincoln McBride, Geoffrey Facer, Marc A. Unger, Hany Ramez Nassef 2015-10-06 $3,923,000
9103825 Microfluidic assay devices and methods Hany Ramez Nassef, Hou-Pu Chou, Andrew Paul May, Kathy Yokobata 2015-08-11 $2,631,000
9090934 Methods for detection and quantification of nucleic acid or protein targets in a sample Marc A. Unger 2015-07-28 $6,572,000
8828661 Methods for detection and quantification of nucleic acid or protein targets in a sample Marc A. Unger 2014-09-09 $5,478,000
8828663 Thermal reaction device and method for using the same Marc A. Unger, Lincoln McBride, Geoffrey Facer, Hany Ramez Nassef 2014-09-09 $5,478,000
8663920 Library characterization by digital assay Serge Saxonov, Svilen S. Tzonev, Ryan T. Koehler, Benjamin Hindson 2014-03-04
8343442 Microfluidic device and methods of using same Lincoln McBride, Marc A. Unger, Hany Ramez Nassef, Geoffrey Facer 2013-01-01
8247178 Thermal reaction device and method for using the same Lincoln McBride, Geoffrey Facer, Marc A. Unger, Hany Ramez Nassef 2012-08-21 $2,531,000
8163492 Microfluidic device and methods of using same Marc A. Unger, Ian D. Manger, Yong Yi, Emily Miyashita-Lin, Anja Wienecke +1 more 2012-04-24
7837946 Microfluidic device and methods of using same Lincoln McBride, Marc A. Unger, Hany Ramez Nassef, Geoffrey Facer 2010-11-23