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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 1998
Filed:
May. 16, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Mark Chee, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Maureen T Cronin, Los Altos, CA (US);
Stephen P Fodor, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Xiaohua X Huang, Mt. View, CA (US);
Earl A Hubbell, Mt. View, CA (US);
Robert J Lipshutz, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Peter E Lobban, Palo Alto, CA (US);
MacDonald S Morris, San Jose, CA (US);
Edward L Sheldon, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Assignee:
Affymetrix, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
536 221 ; 435-6 ; 435 911 ; 436501 ; 536 231 ; 536 241 ; 536 243 ; 536 2431 ; 536 2432 ; 536 2433 ; 536 253 ; 422 681 ; 935 77 ; 935 78 ; 935 88 ;
Abstract
DNA chips containing arrays of oligonucleotide probes can be used to determine whether a target nucleic acid has a nucleotide sequence identical to or different from a specific reference sequence. The array of probes comprises probes exactly complementary to the reference sequence, as well as probes that differ by one or more bases from the exactly complementary probes.
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