ngen has about 15 patents in process: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/h?s=NGEN http://www.nanogen.com/
lots of support: http://www.stockta.com/cgi-bin/analysis.pl?symb=NGEN&num1=1&cobrand=&mode=stock
ready to explode see here:http://stockcharts.com/def/servlet/SC.web?c=NGEN,uu[m,a]daclyyay[de][pb50!b200][vc60][iUb14!La12,26,9]&pref=G