Inventor · Encinitas, CA, US

Michael J. Heller

64Patents
29h-index
69Co-inventors
91Inventor score

Filing activity: Feb 22, 1979 → Jun 9, 2022

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5605662A Active programmable electronic devices for molecular biological analysis and diagnostics Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 1,000 Expired
US5632957A Molecular biological diagnostic systems including electrodes Electricity 741 Expired
US6051380A Methods and procedures for molecular biological analysis and diagnostics Electricity 419 Expired
US5849486A Methods for hybridization analysis utilizing electrically controlled hybridization Electricity 373 Expired
US4996143A Fluorescent stokes shift probes for polynucleotide hybridization Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 327 Expired
US6017696A Methods for electronic stringency control for molecular biological analysis and diagnostics Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 315 Expired
US5929208A Methods for electronic synthesis of polymers Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 257 Expired
US5849489A Hybridization of polynucleotides conjugated with chromophores and fluorophores to generate donor-to-donor energy transfer system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 231 Expired
US5565322A Hybridization of polynucleotides conjugated with chromophores and fluorophores to generate donor-to donor energy transfer system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 226 Expired
US6048690A Methods for electronic fluorescent perturbation for analysis and electronic perturbation catalysis for synthesis Electricity 187 Expired
US5787032A Deoxyribonucleic acid(DNA) optical storage using non-radiative energy transfer between a donor group, an acceptor group and a quencher group Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 162 Expired
US5532129A Self-organizing molecular photonic structures based on chromophore- and fluorophore-containing polynucleotides and methods of their use Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 126 Expired
US6403367B1 Integrated portable biological detection system Electricity 124 Expired
US6780584B1 Electronic systems and component devices for macroscopic and microscopic molecular biological reactions, analyses and diagnostics Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 119 Expired
US6569382B1 Methods apparatus for the electronic, homogeneous assembly and fabrication of devices Electricity 90 Expired
US8086524B1 Systems and methods for transaction processing and balance transfer processing Physics 81 Active
US6245508A Method for fingerprinting utilizing an electronically addressable array Electricity 76 Expired
US6129828A Apparatus and methods for active biological sample preparation Performing Operations; Transporting 69 Expired
US6162603A Hybridization of polynucleotides conjugated with chromophores and fluorophores to generate donor-to-donor energy transfer system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 68 Expired
US6379897B1 Methods for gene expression monitoring on electronic microarrays Electricity 59 Expired
US6013166A Method for reducing the linear dimension necessary for high resolution electrophoretic separation Physics 53 Expired
US4824776A Method for increasing the sensitivity of nucleic acid hybridization assays Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 49 Expired
US6488832B2 Array based electrophoretic system for the analysis of multiple biological samples Physics 46 Expired
US6706473B1 Systems and devices for photoelectrophoretic transport and hybridization of oligonucleotides Electricity 45 Expired
US6518022B1 Method for enhancing the hybridization efficiency of target nucleic acids using a self-addressable, self-assembling microelectronic device Electricity 41 Expired

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.