Inventor · San Francisco, CA, US

Thomas Willis

31Patents
18h-index
12Co-inventors
78Inventor score

Filing activity: Oct 24, 2001 → May 10, 2021

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6858412B2 Direct multiplex characterization of genomic DNA Chemistry; Metallurgy 470 Expired
US8748103B2 Monitoring health and disease status using clonotype profiles Chemistry; Metallurgy 185 Active
US8236503B2 Methods of monitoring conditions by sequence analysis Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 131 Active
US7700323B2 Method for detecting and amplifying target DNA Chemistry; Metallurgy 124 Active
US9217176B2 Methods of monitoring conditions by sequence analysis Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 110 Active
US9512487B2 Monitoring health and disease status using clonotype profiles Chemistry; Metallurgy 107 Active
US9506119B2 Method of sequence determination using sequence tags Chemistry; Metallurgy 80 Active
US10246752B2 Methods of monitoring conditions by sequence analysis Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 77 Active
US8691510B2 Sequence analysis of complex amplicons Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 77 Active
US8628927B2 Monitoring health and disease status using clonotype profiles Chemistry; Metallurgy 74 Active
US8507205B2 Single cell analysis by polymerase cycling assembly Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 69 Active
US8795970B2 Methods of monitoring conditions by sequence analysis Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 66 Active
US9228232B2 Methods of monitoring conditions by sequence analysis Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 60 Active
US7510829B2 Multiplex PCR Chemistry; Metallurgy 49 Expired
US9043160B1 Method of determining clonotypes and clonotype profiles Chemistry; Metallurgy 48 Active
US9416420B2 Monitoring health and disease status using clonotype profiles Chemistry; Metallurgy 44 Active
US7993880B2 Precircle probe nucleic acid amplification methods Chemistry; Metallurgy 34 Active
US9394567B2 Detection and quantification of sample contamination in immune repertoire analysis Chemistry; Metallurgy 20 Active
US10155992B2 Monitoring health and disease status using clonotype profiles Chemistry; Metallurgy 16 Active
US10266901B2 Methods of monitoring conditions by sequence analysis Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 9 Active
US9523129B2 Sequence analysis of complex amplicons Chemistry; Metallurgy 2 Active
US8383348B2 Precircle probe nucleic acid amplification methods Chemistry; Metallurgy 1 Active
US9347099B2 Single cell analysis by polymerase cycling assembly Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 1 Active
US10865453B2 Monitoring health and disease status using clonotype profiles Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 1 Active
US10760133B2 Monitoring health and disease status using clonotype profiles Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 1 Active

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