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C40B 20/00

Methods specially adapted for identifying library members

Introduced: January 2006

Classification Context

Section:
CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
Class:
COMBINATORIAL TECHNOLOGY
Subclass:
COMBINATORIAL CHEMISTRY; LIBRARIES, e.g. CHEMICAL LIBRARIES

4 direct subcodes

Child Classifications

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  • C40B 20/02 Identifying library members by their fixed physical location on a support or substrate
  • C40B 20/04 Identifying library members by means of a tag, label, or other readable or detectable entity associated with the library members, e.g. decoding processes
  • C40B 20/06 using iterative deconvolution techniques
  • C40B 20/08 Direct analysis of the library members by physical methods, e.g. spectroscopy

Top Applicants

Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor class C40, 2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT

  1. HARVARD UNIVERSITY US 245
  2. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA US 195
  3. ILLUMINA US 130
  4. STANFORD UNIVERSITY US 130
  5. TWIST BIOSCIENCE CORPORATION US 120
  6. CHUGAI PHARMACEUTICAL JP 94
  7. MIT (MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY) US 94
  8. CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 92
  9. BGI SHENZHEN COMPANY CN 89
  10. 10X GENOMICS US 88