Patent Theme
Nucleic Acid Capture & Prep
Methods and reagents designed to improve the specificity, efficiency, or yield of nucleic acid capture, ligation, amplification, or library preparation steps, particularly for sequencing applications or quantitative analysis.
9,122 US filings from 2,213 companies since 2023 · 2023: 2,217 · 2024: 2,964 · 2025: 2,808 · 2026 YTD: 1,133
Genetic & Microbiological Assays
Top companies
Ranked by filings in this theme since 2023. 2026 is partial.
| # | Company | Since 2023 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 YTD | YoY |
|---|
| 1 | 10x Genomics, Inc. | 499 | 103 | 162 | 176 | 58 | +8.6% |
| 2 | Illumina, Inc. | 416 | 78 | 142 | 135 | 61 | -4.9% |
| 3 | LIFE TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION | 191 | 51 | 68 | 61 | 11 | -10.3% |
| 4 | Singular Genomics Systems, Inc. | 166 | 40 | 65 | 39 | 22 | -40.0% |
| 5 | Roche Sequencing Solutions, Inc. | 162 | 37 | 63 | 49 | 13 | -22.2% |
| 6 | President and Fellows of Harvard College | 160 | 54 | 40 | 47 | 19 | +17.5% |
| 7 | Illumina Cambridge Limited | 134 | 55 | 43 | 23 | 13 | -46.5% |
| 8 | Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. | 131 | 40 | 40 | 36 | 15 | -10.0% |
| 9 | The Regents of the University of California | 118 | 30 | 39 | 31 | 18 | -20.5% |
| 10 | Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC | 105 | 25 | 30 | 37 | 13 | +23.3% |
| 11 | Becton, Dickinson and Company | 101 | 16 | 43 | 31 | 11 | -27.9% |
| 12 | UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | 91 | 16 | 32 | 37 | 6 | +15.6% |
| 13 | GEN-PROBE INCORPORATED | 90 | 21 | 28 | 31 | 10 | +10.7% |
| 14 | The Broad Institute, Inc. | 85 | 33 | 20 | 22 | 10 | +10.0% |
| 15 | PACIFIC BIOSCIENCES OF CALIFORNIA, INC. | 80 | 27 | 29 | 15 | 9 | -48.3% |
| 16 | Ultima Genomics, Inc. | 73 | 14 | 30 | 19 | 10 | -36.7% |
| 17 | MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | 72 | 29 | 18 | 18 | 7 | 0.0% |
| 18 | Element Biosciences, Inc. | 69 | 10 | 20 | 24 | 15 | +20.0% |
| 19 | California Institute of Technology | 65 | 14 | 26 | 20 | 5 | -23.1% |
| 20 | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University | 65 | 14 | 18 | 22 | 11 | +22.2% |
| 21 | Guardant Health, Inc. | 64 | 9 | 24 | 21 | 10 | -12.5% |
| 22 | Natera, Inc. | 63 | 8 | 25 | 18 | 12 | -28.0% |
| 23 | ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | 58 | 11 | 16 | 22 | 9 | +37.5% |
| 24 | Waters Technologies Corporation | 54 | 8 | 21 | 19 | 6 | -9.5% |
| 25 | New England Biolabs, Inc. | 52 | 12 | 15 | 12 | 13 | -20.0% |