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Applied Biosystems, LLC

105 patents currently held · Updated Nov 14, 2026
37 more in force are now held by other companies
Held is read from USPTO's recorded assignments; a transfer never recorded there does not appear.

Recorded under 9 name spellings.

Previously recorded as Applera Corporation (to 2008)

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Fee deadlines

Maintenance fees fall due 3.5, 7.5 and 11.5 years after grant. A missed fee ends a patent at the end of the six month grace period that follows, not on the due date.
  • 1 fee due Nov 26, 2026
    The maintenance fee for Reagents Useful for Synthesizing Rhodamine-Labeled Oligonucleotides (US 9,040,674) comes due Nov 26, 2026. Unpaid by May 26, 2027, it lapses early.
  • 1 fee due Dec 25, 2026
    The maintenance fee for Sirna Sequence-Independent Modification Formats for Reducing Off-Target Phenotypic Effects in Rnai, and Stabilized Forms Thereof (US 10,329,564) comes due Dec 25, 2026. Unpaid by Jun 25, 2027, it lapses early.
  • 1 fee due Apr 6, 2027
    The maintenance fee for Compositions, Systems, and Methods for Immiscible Fluid Discrete Volume Manipulation (US 9,152,150) comes due Apr 6, 2027. Unpaid by Oct 6, 2027, it lapses early.
  • 2 fees due Jun 3 to 10, 2027 · next Jun 3
  • 4 fees due Sep 1 to 15, 2027 · next Sep 1

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Recent changes

  • 21 terms have ended since Aug 16, 2026

Patents held now

Soonest term end first. Each date below is computed on that patent's own page, which shows the rule, the adjustments and the fee history it was derived from.
PatentTitleStatus Expires Confidence
US 7,663,750Two-Dimensional Spectral Imaging System
In force
 · High confidence
In forceHigh confidence
US 7,358,231Pancreatic Cancer Secreted Targets and Uses Thereof
In force
 · High confidence
In forceHigh confidence
US 7,388,664Methods for Improving the Performance of a Detector
In force
 · High confidence
In forceHigh confidence
US 9,493,830Reagents, Methods, and Libraries for Bead-Based Sequencing
In force
 · High confidence
In forceHigh confidence
US 9,309,560Methods for Producing a Paired Tag from a Nucleic Acid Sequence and Methods of Use Thereof
In force
 · High confidence
In forceHigh confidence
US 7,485,085Heat Transfer for Thermal Cycling
In force
 · High confidence
In forceHigh confidence
US 8,487,085Analyzing messenger RNA and micro RNA in the same reaction mixture
In force
 · From the USPTO record
In forceFrom the USPTO record
US 9,745,336Fluorescent Dye Compounds, Conjugates and Uses Thereof
In force
 · High confidence
In forceHigh confidence
US 10,450,604Device And Method For Making Discrete Volumes Of A First Fluid In Contact With A Second Fluid, Which Are Immiscible With Each Other
In force
 · Medium confidence
In forceMedium confidence
US 10,196,680Methods of Detecting Target Nucleic Acids
In force
 · Medium confidence
In forceMedium confidence
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Also on record, not counted in the 105: 37 patents in force now held by others · 355 lapsed for an unpaid fee · 948 ended at full term · 5 surrendered on reissue. List them

Sources and methods

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Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.

Published applications

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