definiens: shall mean patents claimin g inventions comprising modifications, extensions or enhancements conceived or reduced to practice by TM to the Beads and/or L uminex Instruments or portions thereof ( including Included Software ) or to the manufacture or use of the Bead s and/or [COMPANY] Instruments or portions thereof ( including, Included Software ), including use of such Beads an d / or Instruments in the performance of Multiplexed Bead Assays . specifically exclu des patent claims claiming any other inventions conceiv ed or reduced to practice by TM consisting of metho ds of sample preparation, methods of conjugating Beads to analytes, the composition of matter of the specifi c chemistries of the assays developed by TM, and meth ods of performing the assays ( i.e., the protocol fo r the assays ) ( such excluded developments, the )