Patent Theme
Microfluidic Lab-on-Chip Devices
Miniaturized devices that manipulate small volumes of fluids (nanoliters to picoliters) through microchannels to perform laboratory functions like mixing, separation, reaction, and detection on a single chip.
4,133 US filings from 1,446 companies since 2023 · 2023: 1,059 · 2024: 1,382 · 2025: 1,180 · 2026 YTD: 512
Laboratory ApparatusBioreactors / Cell Culture Apparatus
Top companies
Ranked by filings in this theme since 2023. 2026 is partial.
| # | Company | Since 2023 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 YTD | YoY |
|---|
| 1 | HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P. | 102 | 42 | 27 | 24 | 9 | -11.1% |
| 2 | BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd. | 96 | 20 | 43 | 26 | 7 | -39.5% |
| 3 | Illumina, Inc. | 83 | 16 | 34 | 24 | 9 | -29.4% |
| 4 | The Regents of the University of California | 69 | 18 | 21 | 23 | 7 | +9.5% |
| 5 | SHIMADZU CORPORATION | 59 | 19 | 23 | 12 | 5 | -47.8% |
| 6 | AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | 57 | 9 | 23 | 15 | 10 | -34.8% |
| 7 | International Business Machines Corporation | 46 | 16 | 14 | 13 | 3 | -7.1% |
| 8 | Robert Bosch GmbH | 45 | 5 | 14 | 18 | 8 | +28.6% |
| 9 | Roche Sequencing Solutions, Inc. | 41 | 13 | 9 | 14 | 5 | +55.6% |
| 10 | Waters Technologies Corporation | 33 | 7 | 13 | 8 | 5 | -38.5% |
| 11 | SONY GROUP CORPORATION | 32 | 4 | 13 | 9 | 6 | -30.8% |
| 12 | Becton, Dickinson and Company | 31 | 7 | 13 | 7 | 4 | -46.2% |
| 13 | President and Fellows of Harvard College | 30 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 2 | +11.1% |
| 14 | Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. | 29 | 10 | 11 | 8 | · | -27.3% |
| 15 | 10x Genomics, Inc. | 28 | 7 | 9 | 11 | 1 | +22.2% |
| 16 | Enplas Corporation | 26 | 13 | 9 | 1 | 3 | -88.9% |
| 17 | Beijing BOE Technology Development Co., Ltd. | 24 | 2 | 14 | 6 | 2 | -57.1% |
| 18 | CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA | 24 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 4 | +25.0% |
| 19 | EMULATE, INC. | 24 | 9 | 11 | 4 | · | -63.6% |
| 20 | IMEC VZW | 24 | 7 | 10 | 6 | 1 | -40.0% |
| 21 | THE TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | 23 | 6 | 4 | 10 | 3 | +150.0% |
| 22 | The General Hospital Corporation | 22 | 5 | 7 | 10 | · | +42.9% |
| 23 | mirOculus Inc. | 21 | 9 | 10 | 2 | · | -80.0% |
| 24 | Beijing BOE Sensor Technology Co., Ltd. | 20 | 3 | 9 | 7 | 1 | -22.2% |
| 25 | Bruker Cellular Analysis, Inc. | 20 | · | 7 | 8 | 5 | +14.3% |