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Bob Chen — 12 Patents

XBXcella Biosciences: 7 patents #1 of 9Top 15%
Stanford University: 3 patents #905 of 5,197Top 20%
Menlo Park, CA: #728 of 3,774 inventorsTop 20%
California: #51,404 of 386,348 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #396,045 of 4,157,543Top 10%
12 Patents All Time
Bob Chen has been granted 12 US patents while listed as an inventor at Xcella Biosciences. The first was granted in 2012 and the most recent in June 2025. Bob Chen ranks #396,045 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 9.5%). Patent records list Bob Chen in Menlo Park, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2012 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2014.peak 22012: 1 patents20122014: 2 patents20142019: 2 patents20192020: 1 patents20202021: 2 patents20212022: 1 patents20222024: 1 patents20242025: 2 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–12 of 12 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
12318775 Lateral loading of microcapillary arrays Ming X. Tan, Arturo M. Escajeda 2025-06-03
12228584 Multi-stage sample recovery system 2025-02-18
12024705 Methods and systems for screening using microcapillary arrays Jennifer R. Cochran, Spencer Alford 2024-07-02
11473081 Methods and systems for screening using microcapillary arrays Jennifer R. Cochran, Spencer Alford 2022-10-18
11156626 Multi-stage sample recovery system 2021-10-26
11085039 Methods and systems for screening using microcapillary arrays Jennifer R. Cochran, Spencer Alford 2021-08-10
10526600 Micro-screening apparatus, process, and products Thomas M. Baer, Jennifer R. Cochran, Spencer Alford, Ivan K. Dimov 2020-01-07
10370653 Micro-screening apparatus, process, and products Jennifer R. Cochran, Thomas M. Baer, Spencer Alford, Arvind Kannan, Sungwon Lim +1 more 2019-08-06
10227583 Methods and systems for screening using microcapillary arrays Jennifer R. Cochran, Spencer Alford 2019-03-12
8865864 Mutant epidermal growth factor polypeptides with improved biological activity and methods of their making and use Jennifer R. Cochran, Bertrand Howyen Lui, Jennifer Lynn Lahti, James R. Swartz, Cheuk Lun Leung 2014-10-21
8803426 Modular LED lighting system Steven W. Carlin, Fred F. Chen, Jerome A. Legerton 2014-08-12
8319437 Modular LED lighting system Steven W. Carlin, Fred F. Chen 2012-11-27