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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025
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Brian Piorek — 21 Patents

NDNumerical Design: 8 patents #1 of 3Top 35%
University of California: 8 patents #840 of 18,278Top 5%
ONOndavia: 5 patents #4 of 15Top 30%
Stanford University: 4 patents #664 of 5,197Top 15%
Midland School, CA: #103 of 439 inventorsTop 25%
California: #27,449 of 386,348 inventorsTop 8%
Overall (All Time): #201,324 of 4,157,543Top 5%
21 Patents All Time
Brian Piorek has been granted 21 US patents while listed as an inventor at Numerical Design. The first was granted in 2011 and the most recent in March 2025. Brian Piorek ranks #201,324 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.8%). Patent records list Brian Piorek in Midland School, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2011 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2015.peak 42011: 1 patents20112012: 1 patents2013: 1 patents20132014: 3 patents2015: 4 patents20152017: 1 patents2019: 3 patents20192020: 1 patents2021: 1 patents20212022: 1 patents2023: 2 patents20232024: 1 patents2025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–21 of 21 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
12259126 Microfluidic-based apparatus and method for vaporization of liquids Carl D. Meinhart, Nicholas B. Judy 2025-03-25
11883762 Microfluidic-based apparatus and method for vaporization of liquids Carl D. Meinhart, Nicholas B. Judy 2024-01-30
11821623 Microfluidic-based apparatus and method for vaporization of liquids Carl D. Meinhart, Nicholas B. Judy 2023-11-21
11596176 Microfluidic-based apparatus and method for vaporization of liquids Carl D. Meinhart, Nicholas B. Judy 2023-03-07
11408607 Microfluidic-based apparatus and method for vaporization of liquids Carl D. Meinhart, Nicholas B. Judy 2022-08-09
11117068 Microfluidic-based apparatus and method for vaporization of liquids Carl D. Meinhart, Nicholas B. Judy 2021-09-14
10612770 Microfluidic-based apparatus and method for vaporization of liquids Carl D. Meinhart, Nicholas B. Judy 2020-04-07
10502409 Microfluidic-based apparatus and method for vaporization of liquids Carl D. Meinhart, Nicholas B. Judy 2019-12-10
10416082 Device and methods of detection of airborne agents Carl D. Meinhart, Seung Joon Lee, Martin Moskovits, Sanjoy Banerjee, Juan G. Santiago 2019-09-17
10309728 Titanium-based thermal ground plane Noel C. MacDonald, Carl D. Meinhart, Changsong Ding, Payam Bozorgi, Gaurav Soni 2019-06-04
9719930 Device and methods of detection of airborne agents Carl D. Meinhart, Seung Joon Lee, Martin Moskovits, Sanjoy Banerjee, Juan G. Santiago 2017-08-01
9134248 Systems for analyte detection Carl D. Meinhart, T.J. Reed, Ian Cutler, Philip Anton Strong 2015-09-15
9097676 Device and methods of detection of airborne agents Carl D. Meinhart, Seung Joon Lee, Martin Moskovits, Sanjoy Banerjee, Juan G. Santiago 2015-08-04
9091656 SERS-active absorbers for the analysis of analytes Seung Joon Lee, Carl D. Meinhart, Casey Hare, Norman Douglas Bradley 2015-07-28
9036144 Nano-/micro-droplets for the detection of analytes Seung Joon Lee, Carl D. Meinhart 2015-05-19
8917389 SERS devices for the remote analysis of analytes Carl D. Meinhart, Seung Joon Lee 2014-12-23
8807203 Titanium-based thermal ground plane Noel C. MacDonald, Carl D. Meinhart, Changsong Ding, Payam Bozorgi, Gaurav Soni 2014-08-19
8792095 Methods and apparatus for transport of airborne molecules using an active cyclical vapor/liquid exchange Carl D. Meinhart, Seung Joon Lee 2014-07-29
8431409 Device and methods of detection of airborne agents Carl D. Meinhart, Seung Joon Lee, Martin Moskovits, Sanjoy Banerjee, Juan G. Santiago 2013-04-30
8247238 Device and methods of detection of airborne agents Carl D. Meinhart, Seung Joon Lee, Martin Moskovits, Sanjoy Banerjee, Juan G. Santiago 2012-08-21
8017408 Device and methods of detection of airborne agents Carl D. Meinhart, Seung Joon Lee, Martin Moskovits, Sanjoy Banerjee, Juan G. Santiago 2011-09-13