SAN DIEGO, CA--(Marketwire - January 14, 2008) - Senomyx, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNMX), a leading company using proprietary taste receptor technologies to discover and develop novel flavor ingredients for the food, beverage, and ingredient supply industries, announced today the issuance by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office of five new patents relating to the human umami and sweet taste receptors. These patents are U.S. Patent No. 7,309,577, issued on December 18, 2007, entitled, "Binding assays that use the T1R1/T1R3 (umami) taste receptor to identify compounds that elicit or modulate umami taste"; U.S. Patent No. 7,301,009, issued on November 27, 2007, entitled, "Isolated umami (T1R1/T1R3) taste receptors that respond to umami taste stimuli"; U.S. Patent No. 7,297,543, issued on November 20, 2007, entitled, "Cell lines that stably or transiently express a functional sweet (T1R2/T1R3) taste receptor"; U.S. Patent No. 7,297,772, also issued on November 20, 2007, entitled, "Isolated sweet (T1R2/T1R3) taste receptors that respond to sweet taste stimuli"; and U.S. Patent No. 7,294,474, issued on November 13, 2007, entitled, "Functional assays for identifying compounds that modulate T1R2/T1R3 (sweet) taste."
