Mark A. Burns
57Patents
18h-index
67Co-inventors
87Inventor score
Filing activity: Sep 12, 1986 → Nov 13, 2023
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6379929B1 | Chip-based isothermal amplification devices and methods | Performing Operations; Transporting | 632 | Expired |
| US6130098A | Moving microdroplets | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 553 | Expired |
| US6057149A | Microscale devices and reactions in microscale devices | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 391 | Expired |
| US6048734A | Thermal microvalves in a fluid flow method | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 212 | Expired |
| US6911183B1 | Moving microdroplets | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 140 | Expired |
| US7004184B2 | Compositions and methods for liquid metering in microchannels | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 133 | Expired |
| US6271021A | Microscale devices and reactions in microscale devices | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 127 | Expired |
| US6292760A | Method and apparatus to measure non-coherent signals | Physics | 97 | Expired |
| US5511010A | Method and apparatus of eliminating interference in an undersettled electrical signal | Physics | 95 | Expired |
| US7195036B2 | Thermal micro-valves for micro-integrated devices | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 71 | Expired |
| US4675113A | Affinity chromatography using dried calcium alginate-magnetite separation media in a magnetically stabilized fluidized bed | Performing Operations; Transporting | 71 | Expired |
| US8071056B2 | Thermal microvalves | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 62 | Active |
| US8936945B2 | Compositions and methods for liquid metering in microchannels | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 62 | Active |
| US5084184A | Positive focusing in a magnetically stabilized fluidized bed | Physics | 30 | Expired |
| US5589763A | Coherent undersampling digitizer for use with automatic field test equipment | Physics | 27 | Expired |
| US5578935A | Undersampling digitizer with a sampling circuit positioned on an integrated circuit | Physics | 22 | Expired |
| US7005050B2 | Electrophoresis in microfabricated devices using photopolymerized polyacrylamide gels and electrode-defined sample injection | Physics | 20 | Expired |
| US7188515B2 | Nanoliter viscometer for analyzing blood plasma and other liquid samples | Physics | 18 | Expired |
| US6897670B2 | Parallel integrated circuit test apparatus and test method | Physics | 17 | Expired |
| US6240130A | Method and apparatus to measure jitter. | Electricity | 16 | Expired |
| US6445325B1 | Piecewise linear digital to analog conversion | Electricity | 16 | Expired |
| US4720479A | Carbonless paper sheet materials | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 15 | Expired |
| US5167812A | Affinity chromatogry using dried calcium alginate-magnetite separation media in a magnetically stabilized fluidized bed | Performing Operations; Transporting | 11 | Expired |
| US7125478B2 | Microscale electrophoresis devices for biomolecule separation and detection | Physics | 10 | Expired |
| US6567021B1 | Design-for-test circuit for successive approximation analog-to-digital converters | Electricity | 8 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.