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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:
Apr. 18, 2000
Filed:
Mar. 04, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Joseph Albert Monforte, Berkeley, CA (US);
Thomas Andrew Shaler, San Francisco, CA (US);
Yuping Tan, Fremont, CA (US);
Christopher Hank Becker, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Assignee:
GeneTrace Systems Inc., Alameda, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q / ; C12P / ; C07H / ; C07H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
435-6 ; 435 911 ; 435 912 ; 536 231 ; 536 241 ; 536 2433 ;
Abstract
This invention relates to methods for screening nucleic acids for mutations by analyzing nonrandomly fragmented nucleic acids using mass spectrometric techniques and to procedures for improving mass resolution and mass accuracy of these methods of detecting