Patents by Inventor Angela M. Belcher

Angela M. Belcher has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11896633
    Abstract: Provided are engineered phages populations, which are homogeneous in length, as well as methods of making and methods of using such phages. Also provided are engineered chlorotoxin-phages as well as their methods of making and using. The disclosed homogeneous phage populations and chlorotoxin-phages may be used, for example, for treating and/or imaging tumors, such as central nervous system tumors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Angela M. Belcher, Uyanga Tsedev, Fred Lam
  • Patent number: 11884566
    Abstract: Metal bioremediation and metal mining strategies can include compositions and methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: George Le-Le Sun, Angela M. Belcher
  • Publication number: 20230331795
    Abstract: Disclosed are fusion proteins including a STING?TM protein fused to a nanobody, and compositions thereof that further include a STING agonist. Also disclosed are methods of treating cancer, which is achieved by administering said compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Angela M. BELCHER, Paula T. HAMMOND, Yanpu HE, Celestine HONG, Shengnan HUANG, Jiahe LI
  • Publication number: 20230041208
    Abstract: An engineered phage-derived particle (PDP) for expressing a transgene in a target cell transduced with a bacteriophage, the PDP includes (i) less than about 500 bp of DNA from the bacteriophage genome, (ii) an ITR-flanked therapeutic gene up to 20 kb, (iii) an endosomal escape sequence, (iv) a nuclear localization sequence, and (v) a cell-specific targeting moiety. The PDP may escape lysosomal degradation, traffic across the nuclear envelope and expressed a therapeutic gene in a mammalian cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Uyanga Tsedev, Angela M. Belcher
  • Publication number: 20210221719
    Abstract: Metal bioremediation and metal mining strategies can include compositions and methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: George Le-Le Sun, Angela M. Belcher
  • Publication number: 20210205381
    Abstract: Provided are engineered phages populations, which are homogeneous in length, as well as methods of making and methods of using such phages. Also provided are engineered chlorotoxin-phages as well as their methods of making and using. The disclosed homogeneous phage populations and chlorotoxin-phages may be used, for example, for treating and/or imaging tumors, such as central nervous system tumors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Angela M. Belcher, Uyanga Tsedev, Fred Lam
  • Patent number: 10987388
    Abstract: Provided are engineered phages populations, which are homogeneous in length, as well as methods of making and methods of using such phages. Also provided are engineered chlorotoxin-phages as well as their methods of making and using. The disclosed homogeneous phage populations and chlorotoxin-phages may be used, for example, for treating and/or imaging tumors, such as central nervous system tumors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Angela M. Belcher, Uyanga Tsedev, Fred Lam
  • Patent number: 10766798
    Abstract: Metal bioremediation and metal mining strategies can include compositions and methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: George Le-Le Sun, Angela M. Belcher
  • Patent number: 10751423
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods of treating cancer of the intraperitoneal cavity using compositions comprising nanoparticles without targeting agents. In addition, nanoparticles are described that comprise a highly toxic anticancer agent (e.g., an anticancer agent having an IC50 less than 1 nM) covalently bound via a linker to a triblock copolymer. Other nanoparticles that comprise Pt(IV) and an anticancer agent are also described. Also disclosed are nanoparticles comprising imaging agents non-covalently associated with a polymer, and methods of imaging cancer of the intraperitoneal cavity using compositions comprising nanoparticles without targeting agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Paiman Peter Ghoroghchian, Ruogu Qi, Angela M. Belcher, Xiangnan Dang, Zhimin Tao
  • Patent number: 10598914
    Abstract: System and method configured to operate under conditions when the object being imaged destroys or negates the information which otherwise allows the user to take advantage of optical parallax, configured to elicit luminescence from the same targets in the object as a result of irradiation of these targets with pump light at different, respectively corresponding wavelengths, and acquire optical data from so-illuminated targets through the very same optical path to image the object at different wavelengths. One embodiment enables acquisition, by the same optical detector and from the same object, of imaging data that includes a reflectance image and multiple fluorescence-based images caused by light at different wavelengths, to assess difference in depths of locations of targets within the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Andrew M. Siegel, Nandini Rajan, Angela M. Belcher, Neelkanth M. Bardhan
  • Patent number: 10456774
    Abstract: A biotemplated nanomaterial can include a crystalline perovskite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Nurxat Nuraje, Angela M. Belcher, Yu Lei
  • Patent number: 10442982
    Abstract: To deliver surfactants or tracers to underground oil fields, inorganic encapsulated surfactant nanoparticles or microparticles that are stable for several weeks under high temperature and high salt conditions can be used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Angela M. Belcher, Nurxat Nuraje, Yu Lei, Hiroshi Atsumi, Xunpei Liu
  • Patent number: 10276309
    Abstract: A dye-sensitized solar cell can include a plurality of a plasmon-forming nanostructures. The plasmon-forming nanostructures can include an oxide core, an inner metallic shell on a surface of the oxide core, and an outer oxide shell on a surface of the inner metallic shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Jifa Qi, Xiangnan Dang, Angela M. Belcher, Paula T. Hammond
  • Patent number: 10199588
    Abstract: A planar mixed-metal perovskite solar cell can exhibit many favorable properties including high efficiencies and tunable electronic properties. The incorporation of different metal species (i.e. Co, Cu, Fe, Mg, Mn, Ni, Sn, Sr, and Zn) into the film is made possible by the solubility of either each metal's divalent acetate or halide compound in a solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Angela M. Belcher, Matthew T. Klug, Paula T. Hammond
  • Publication number: 20190022155
    Abstract: Provided are engineered phages populations, which are homogeneous in length, as well as methods of making and methods of using such phages. Also provided are engineered chlorotoxin -phages as well as their methods of making and using. The disclosed homogeneous phage populations and chlorotoxin-phages may be used, for example, for treating and/or imaging tumors, such as central nervous system tumors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2018
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Angela M. Belcher, Uyanga Tsedev, Fred Lam
  • Publication number: 20180237321
    Abstract: Metal bioremediation and metal mining strategies can include compositions and methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2018
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: George Le-Le Sun, Angela M. Belcher
  • Patent number: 10041951
    Abstract: An imaging probe can include a photoluminescent carbon nanostructure configured to emit a wavelength of light detectable through living tissue, and a targeting moiety including a first binding partner configured to interact with a second binding partner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Hyunjung Yi, Debadyuti Ghosh, Jifa Qi, Angela M. Belcher, Michael S. Strano, Neelkanth M. Bardhan
  • Publication number: 20180133693
    Abstract: A biotemplated nanomaterial can include a crystalline perovskite.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2017
    Publication date: May 17, 2018
    Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Nurxat Nuraje, Angela M. Belcher, Yu Lei
  • Publication number: 20180092538
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided to obtain optical coherence tomography data and fluorescence imaging data from an object. The systems and methods use a single light source to illuminate and excite fluorescence in the object and a common optical path including an optical fiber to provide illumination and excitation light and collect reflected and emitted light at the object. The optical coherence tomography data and fluorescence imaging data can be combined to produce morphological images of an object with additional location-specific fluorescence cues.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2017
    Publication date: April 5, 2018
    Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Nandini Rajan, Andrew M. Siegel, Angela M. Belcher, Neelkanth M. Bardhan
  • Publication number: 20180042483
    Abstract: A method, and corresponding system, can include identifying a plurality of wavelength spectral band components in hyperspectral image data, the spectral band components corresponding to mutually distinct sources of image contrast. An intensity image corresponding to each respective spectral band component can be calculated, followed by combining the respective intensity images to form an inter-band image based on the respective, mutually distinct sources of image contrast for each spectral band component. Intensity images can be hyperspectral or hyperdiffuse images. Hyperdiffuse imaging can be performed for each spectral band component identified using hyperspectral measurements. Spectral position and spectral width images corresponding to each spectral band component can be calculated and used to determine depth of features inside a surface of the target. Diffuse width images can be calculated from hyperdiffuse image data and used to determine depth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2016
    Publication date: February 15, 2018
    Inventors: Neelkanth M. Bardhan, Xiangnan Dang, Jifa Qi, Angela M. Belcher