Who owns the IP
The organizations most actively patenting around this compound, ranked by referenced patent volume.
| # | Assignee | Patents |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kyocera Corp | 660 |
| 2 | Xerox Holdings Corp | 315 |
| 3 | Eastman Kodak Co | 147 |
| 4 | Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc | 134 |
| 5 | Fujifilm Holdings Corp | 119 |
| 6 | Carestream Health Inc | 112 |
| 7 | Konica Minolta Inc | 83 |
| 8 | Sony Group Corp | 73 |
| 9 | Roche Holding AG | 59 |
| 10 | Mallinckrodt PLC | 50 |
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Patent classifications ranked by volume reveal the technical domains with the most active filing.
| # | Code | Area | Patents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | C09B | 941 | |
| 2 | G01N | Investigating / analysing materials | 897 |
| 3 | G02B | 754 | |
| 4 | H10K | Organic semiconductors / OLEDs | 635 |
| 5 | G03G | 577 |
| 6 | A61K | Medicinal preparations | 561 |
| 7 | C07D | Heterocyclic compounds | 543 |
| 8 | Y02E | Climate change mitigation: energy | 533 |
| 9 | G03F | 527 | |
| 10 | C09K | Materials for misc. applications | 479 |
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See Cypris in actionRepresentative patents
The filings that best characterise the patent activity around this compound, most-referenced first.
| Title | Year | Assignee | Cited by |
|---|---|---|---|
| Silylated compositions, and deuterated hydroxyl squaraine compositions and processes | 1986 | Xerox Holdings Corp | 58 |
| Photoconductive imaging members with unsymmetrical squaraine compounds containing an hydroxyl group | 1986 | Xerox Holdings Corp | 45 |
| Squaraine based dyes and process for preparation thereof | 2002 | Council of Scientific and Industrial Research | 34 |
| Electrophotographic elements containing unsymmetrical squaraines | 1986 | Xerox Holdings Corp | 29 |
| Process for synthesizing squaraine compositions | 1985 | Xerox Holdings Corp | 26 |
How research activity has moved
Papers published per year for this compound, over the last decade of indexed records.
| Year | Papers |
|---|---|
| 2016 | 9 |
| 2017 | 12 |
| 2018 | 10 |
| 2019 | 4 |
| 2020 | 11 |
| 2021 | 5 |
| 2022 | 18 |
| 2023 | 13 |
| 2024 | 12 |
| 2025 | 7 |
Who's driving the science
The most-published authors working with this compound, alongside their primary affiliations.
| # | Author | Affiliation | Papers |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bradley D. Smith | University of Notre Dame | 20 |
| 2 | Yongqian Xu | Northwest A&F University | 13 |
| 3 | Ayyappanpillai Ajayaghosh | National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology | 10 |
| 4 | Shiguo Sun | Northwest A&F University | 9 |
| 5 | Yi Pang | University of Akron | 8 |
| 6 | Nadia Barbero | University of Turin | 7 |
| 7 | Claudia Barolo | University of Turin | 7 |
| 8 | Easwaran Arunkumar | University of Notre Dame | 7 |
| 9 | Renato E. Boto | University of Beira Interior | 6 |
| 10 | Shyam S. Pandey | Kyushu Institute of Technology | 5 |
Research leaders
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See Cypris in actionThe literature that defines it
The most-cited papers anchoring the scientific record for this compound.
| Title | Year | Cited by | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| Far-red to near infrared analyte-responsive fluorescent probes based on organic fluorophore platforms for fluorescence imaging | 2012 | 1829 | Molecular Sensors and Ion Detection |
| Recent Development of Chemosensors Based on Cyanine Platforms | 2016 | 1096 | Molecular Sensors and Ion Detection |
| A Ratiometric CdSe/ZnS Nanocrystal pH Sensor | 2006 | 507 | Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques |
| Squaraines as Fluoro−Chromogenic Probes for Thiol-Containing Compounds and Their Application to the Detection of Biorelevant Thiols | 2004 | 329 | Molecular Sensors and Ion Detection |
| Squaraine-Derived Rotaxanes: Sterically Protected Fluorescent Near-IR Dyes | 2005 | 297 | Molecular Sensors and Ion Detection |
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