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Patents: The following United States patents are owned by or exclusively licensed to Sequenom:

US 4,920,264 Method for Preparing Samples for Mass Analysis by Desorption from a Frozen Solution
US 5,118,937 Process and Device for the Laser Desorption of Analyte Molecular Ions, Especially of Biomolecules
US 5,202,561 Device and Method for Analysing Ions of High Mass
US 5,503,980 Positional Sequencing by Hybridization
US 5,547,835 DNA Sequencing by Mass Spectrometry
US 5,605,798 DNA Diagnostic Based on Mass Spectrometry
US 5,622,824 DNA Sequencing by Mass Spectrometry via Exonuclease Degradation
US 5,631,134 Methods of Preparing Probe Array by Hybridization
US 5,691,141 DNA Sequencing by Mass Spectrometry
US 5,700,642 Oligonucleotide Sizing Using Immobilized Cleavable Primers
US 5,777,324 Method and Apparatus for MALDI Analysis
US 5,795,714 Method for Replicating an Array of Nucleic Acid Probes
US 5,804,436 Apparatus and Method for Real-Time Measurement of Cellular Response
US 5,830,655 Oligonucleotide Sizing Using Cleavable Primers
US 5,851,765 DNA Sequencing by Mass Spectrometry via Exonuclease Degradation
US 5,864,137 Mass Spectrometer
US 5,869,242 Mass Spectrometry to Assess DNA Sequence Polymorphisms
US 5,872,003 DNA Sequencing by Mass Spectrometry via Exonuclease Degradation
US 5,900,481 Bead Linkers for Immobilizing Nucleic Acids to Solid Supports
US 5,919,646 Apparatus and Method for Real-Time Measurement of Cellular Response
US 5,922,542 Diagnosis of Predisposition to Osteoporosis
US 5,928,906 Process for Direct Sequencing During Template Amplification
US 5,939,260 Methods of Diagnosing a Predisposition to Osteoarthritis via Detection of Vitamin D Receptor Gene Polymorphisms
US 5,965,363 Methods of Preparing Nucleic Acids for Mass Spectrometric Analysis
US 5,998,137 Methods of Diagnosis by Detecting Polymorphisms in the TGF-ß1 Promoter
US 6,007,987 Positional Sequencing by Hybridization
US 6,022,688 Method for Dissociating Biotin Complexes
US 6,024,925 Systems and Methods for Preparing Low Volume Analyte Array Elements
US 6,043,031 DNA Diagnostics Based on Mass Spectrometry
US 6,051,378 Methods of Screening Nucleic Acids Using Mass Spectrometry
US 6,066,450 Diagnostic and Therapeutic Methods and Apparatus Based on Interleukin-6 Gene Polymorphisms
US 6,074,823 DNA Sequencing by Mass Spectrometry via Exonuclease Degradation
US 6,090,558 DNA Typing by Mass Spectrometry with Polymorphic DNA Repeat Markers
US 6,096,509 Apparatus and Method for Compound Profiling of Living Cells
US 6,104,028 Volatile Matrices for Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization Mass Spectrometry
US 6,111,251 Method and Apparatus for MALDI Analysis
US 6,133,436 Beads Bound to a Solid Support and to Nucleic Acids
US 6,140,053 DNA Sequencing by Mass Spectrometry via Exonuclease Degradation
US 6,146,854 Filtration Processes, Kits and Devices for Isolating Plasmids
US 6,156,510 Polymorphisms in a Microsatellite Region of a Glucocorticoid Receptor Gene
US 6,194,144 DNA Sequencing by Mass Spectrometry
US 6,197,498 DNA Diagnostics Based on Mass Spectrometry
US 6,207,370 Diagnostics Based on Mass Spectrometric Detection of Translated Target Polypeptides
US 6,218,524 Genetic Polymorphisms in the Microsomal Triglyceride Transfer Protein Promoter and Uses Thereof
US 6,221,601 DNA Diagnostics Based on Mass Spectrometry
US 6,221,605 DNA Diagnostics Based on Mass Spectrometry
US 6,225,061 Systems and Methods for Performing Reactions in an Unsealed Environment
US 6,225,450 DNA Sequencing by Mass Spectrometry
US 6,235,478 DNA Diagnostics Based on Mass Spectrometry
US 6,238,871 DNA Sequencing by Mass Spectrometry
US 6,242,209 Cell Flow Apparatus and Method for Real-Time Measurements of Cellular Responses
US 6,258,538 DNA Diagnostics Based on Mass Spectrometry
US 6,265,716 Volatile Matrices for Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization Mass Spectrometry
US 6,268,131 Mass Spectrometric Methods for Sequencing Nucleic Acids
US 6,268,144 DNA Diagnostics Based on Mass Spectrometry
US 6,277,573 DNA Diagnostics Based on Mass Spectrometry
US 6,280,967 Cell Flow Apparatus and Method for Real-Time Measurement of Cellular Responses
US 6,300,076 DNA Diagnostics Based on Mass Spectrometry
US 6,303,309 Method for Dissociating Biotin Complexes
US 6,312,897 Template-Directed Interference Footprinting of Protein-Adenine Contacts
US 6,322,970 Mass Spectrometric Detection of Polypeptides
US 6,379,917 Apparatus and Method for Real-Time Measurement of Cellular Response
US 6,387,628 Mass Spectrometric Detection of Polypeptides
US 6,423,966 Method and Apparatus for MALDI Analysis
US 6,428,955 DNA Diagnostics Based on Mass Spectrometry
US 6,436,635 Solid Phase Sequencing of Double-Stranded Nucleic Acids
US 6,440,705 Method for Analyzing Polynucleotides
US 6,458,945 Method for Analyzing Polynucleotides
US 6,468,748 Methods of Screening Nucleic Acids Using Volatile Salts in Mass Spectrometry
US 6,475,736 Methods for Genetic Analysis of DNA Using Biased Amplification of Polymorphic
US 6,485,913 Systems and Methods for Performing Reactions in an Unsealed Environment
US 6,500,621 DNA Diagnostics Based on Mass Spectrometry
US 6,500,650 Method for Identifying Polymorphisms
US 6,528,268 Reagents and Methods for Detection of Heart Failure
US 6,558,902 Infrared Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization Mass Spectrometric Analysis of Macromolecules
US 6,558,916 Cell Flow Apparatus and Method for Real-Time Measurements of Patient Cellular Responses
US 6,566,055 Methods of Preparing Nucleic Acids for Mass Spectrometric Analysis
US 6,566,059 Method for Analyzing Polynucleotides
US 6,569,385 Systems and Methods for Preparing and Analyzing Low Volume Analyte Array Elements
US 6,582,923 Method for Analyzing Polynucleotides
US 6,589,485 Solid Support for Mass Spectrometry
US 6,602,662 DNA Diagnostics Based on Mass Spectrometry
US 6,610,492 Base-Modified Nucleotides and Cleavage of Polynucleotides Incorporating Them
US 6,635,452 Releasable Nonvolatile Mass Label Molecules
US 6,660,229 Use of Nucleotide Analogs in the Analysis of Oligonucleotide Mixtures and in Highly Multiplexed Nucleic Acid Sequencing
US 6,706,530 IR-MALDI Spectrometry of Nucleic Acids Using Liquid Matrices
US 6,723,564 IR-MALDI Spectrometry of Nucleic Acids Using Liquid Matrices
US 6,730,517 Automated Process Lines
US 6,764,822 DNA Typing By Mass Spectrometry With Polymorphic DNA Repeat Markers
US 6,812,455 Method and Apparatus for Maldi Analysis
US 6,818,394 High Density Immobilization of Nucleic Acid Molecules
US 6,825,009 Method for Identifying Polymorphisms
US 6,949,633 Primers Useful for Sizing Nucleic Acids
US 6,958,214 Polymorphic Kinase Anchor Proteins and Nucleic Acids Encoding the Same
US 6,991,903 Solid Phase Sequencing of Double-Stranded Nucleic Acids
US 6,994,969 Diagnostic sequencing by a combination of specific cleavage and mass spectrometry
US 6,994,998 Base-modified nucleotides and their use for polymorphism detection
US 7,019,288 Methods of Making Substrates for Mass Spectrometry Analysis and Related Devices
US 7,132,519 Releasable Nonvolatile Mass-Label Molecules
US 7,159,740 Method and Apparatus for Parallel Dispensing of Defined Volumes of Particles

Sequenom has additional patents granted in various foreign countries and other United States and foreign patent applications pending.

Updated 10 December 2007
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