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4A.
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 5,464,985
Non-Linear Field Reflectron
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-β1 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 Sites
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
Sequenom has additional patents
granted in various foreign countries and other United States and
foreign patent applications pending.
Updated 23 April 2004
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