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Govind Kaigala — 31 Patents

IBM: 25 patents #4,231 of 70,183Top 7%
BLBio-Rad Laboratories: 5 patents #159 of 739Top 25%
TLTechnion Research & Development Foundation Limited: 4 patents #111 of 1,205Top 10%
BGBio-Rad Europe Gmbh: 1 patents #32 of 60Top 55%
Stanford University: 1 patents #2,423 of 5,197Top 50%
Rüschlikon, CH: #3 of 50 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #115,823 of 4,157,543Top 3%
31 Patents All Time
Govind Kaigala has been granted 31 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 2013 and the most recent in May 2025. Govind Kaigala ranks #115,823 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.8%). Patent records list Govind Kaigala in Rüschlikon, CH.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2013 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 7 patents in 2020.peak 72013: 1 patents20132015: 2 patents2016: 1 patents20162017: 1 patents2018: 2 patents20182019: 4 patents2020: 7 patents20202021: 6 patents2022: 2 patents20222024: 3 patents2025: 2 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 31 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12311360 Subtractive microfabrication and functionalization of substrates by hydrodynamic flow confinements Federico Paratore, Moran Bercovici, Daniel Widerker, Robert Lovchik 2025-05-27
12201974 Microfluidic probe head with aspiration posts Yochanan Uri, Itay Barak, Robert Lovchik, David P. Taylor, Marcel Buerge 2025-01-21
12128408 Structures on microfluidic devices to control sedimentation Robert Lovchik, Iago Pereiro Pereiro, Anna Fomitcheva Khartchenko 2024-10-29
12011714 Microfluidic probe head with barrier projections Emilie Frisan, Laurent Guillon, Robert Lovchik, David P. Taylor, Claudia I. Trainito 2024-06-18
11980888 Multiplexed microfluidic probe insert for microtiter plates Robert Lovchik, Anna Fomitcheva Khartchenko, Iago Pereiro Pereiro, Lorenzo Franco Teodoro Petrini 2024-05-14 $15,691,000
11515009 Biomarker quantification in a tissue sample Anna Fomitcheva Khartchenko, Aditya Kashyap, Maria Gabrani, Pushpak Pati 2022-11-29 $7,547,000
11458467 Structures to define flow confinement shape and confinement stability with uniform aspiration Robert Lovchik, Anna Fomitcheva Khartchenko, Iago Pereiro Pereiro 2022-10-04
11208648 Determining position and transcriptomes of biological cells Robert Vogel, Navneet Dogra, Lena Voith von Voithenberg, Aditya Kashyap, Gustavo A. Stolovitzky 2021-12-28 $7,175,000
11198124 Microfluidic probe with bypass and control channels Robert Lovchik, David P. Taylor 2021-12-14 $4,192,000
11130125 Prevention and bubble removal from microfluidic devices Robert Lovchik, Anna Fomitcheva Khartchenko, Iago Pereiro Pereiro, Lorenzo Franco Teodoro Petrini 2021-09-28
11117131 Electrokinetically separating, encapsulating and extracting analytes on a microfluidic device Federico Paratore, Onur Gökçe, Moran Bercovici, Xander Van Kooten 2021-09-14 $2,674,000
11119068 Device and method for isotachophoretic focusing large sample volumes Moran Bercovici, Xander Frank Van Kooten, Nadya Ostromohov, Federico Paratore 2021-09-14
10926258 Microfluidic probe head for processing a sequence of liquid volumes separated by spacers Julien Autebert, Emmanuel Delamarche, Xander Frank Van Kooten 2021-02-23 $3,028,000
10753954 Vacuum-driven microfluidic probes Seyed Ali Kazemi Oskooei 2020-08-25 $2,454,000
10717078 Vertical microfluidic probe head with large scale surface processing apertures Robert Lovchik, David P. Taylor, Ismael Zeaf 2020-07-21 $5,684,000
10710079 Electro-kinectic device for species exchange Nadya Ostromohov, Moran Bercovici 2020-07-14 $4,158,000
10706535 Tissue staining quality determination Nuri Murat Arar, Maria Gabrani, Aditya Kashyap, Anna Fomitcheva Khartchenko, Pushpak Pati 2020-07-07 $3,757,000
10639631 Microfluidic probe head for processing a sequence of liquid volumes separated by spacers Julien Autebert, Emmanuel Delamarche, Xander Frank Van Kooten 2020-05-05 $3,712,000
10564158 Characterizing kinetic responses of a ligand-functionalized surface Moran Bercovici, Xander Frank Van Kooten, Nadya Ostromohov, Federico Paratore 2020-02-18 $2,353,000
10549276 Microfluidic probe head for providing a sequence of separate liquid volumes separated by spacers Julien Autebert, Emmanuel Delamarche, Aditya Kashyap, Xander Frank Van Kooten 2020-02-04 $2,135,000
10507465 Microfluidic probe with bypass and control channels Robert Lovchik, David P. Taylor 2019-12-17 $8,615,000
10434510 Microfluidic probe with bypass and control channels Robert Lovchik, David P. Taylor 2019-10-08 $4,743,000
10391488 Microfluidic probe head for providing a sequence of separate liquid volumes separated by spacers Julien Autebert, Emmanuel Delamarche, Aditya Kashyap, Xander Frank Van Kooten 2019-08-27 $1,335,000
10357770 Microfluidic probe for modulating insertion of liquid spacers Julien Autebert, Julien Cors, Emmanuel Delamarche, Xander Frank Van Kooten 2019-07-23 $2,519,000
10144008 Vertical microfluidic probe head with large scale surface processing apertures Robert Lovchik, David P. Taylor, Ismael Zeaf 2018-12-04 $4,080,000