Patents by Inventor Atousa NOURMAHNAD

Atousa NOURMAHNAD 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).

  • Compositions, methods and systems for gas vesicle based cavitation
    Patent number: 11944848
    Abstract: The system and process of therapeutic and effective cavitation by using ultrasound to collapse gas vesicles as well as cavitate the bubbles produced from the collapsed gas vesicles. Therapeutic effect includes, but is not limited to lysing cells by cavitation. The cells expressing the gas vesicles can optionally be used as delivery cells to preform tasks such as transporting the gas vesicles into deep tissue areas, releasing compounds at the cavitation site, and more. The gas vesicles can optionally be modified to facilitate getting the bubbles near the cavitation targets by functionalizing the gas vesicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Avinoam D. Bar-Zion, Atousa Nourmahnad, David Maresca, Mikhail Shapiro
  • COMPOSITIONS, METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR GAS VESICLE BASED CAVITATION
    Publication number: 20230139561
    Abstract: The system and process of therapeutic and effective cavitation by using ultrasound to collapse gas vesicles as well as cavitate the bubbles produced from the collapsed gas vesicles. Therapeutic effect includes, but is not limited to lysing cells by cavitation. The cells expressing the gas vesicles can optionally be used as delivery cells to preform tasks such as transporting the gas vesicles into deep tissue areas, releasing compounds at the cavitation site, and more. The gas vesicles can optionally be modified to facilitate getting the bubbles near the cavitation targets by functionalizing the gas vesicles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventors: Avinoam D. BAR-ZION, Atousa NOURMAHNAD, David MARESCA, Mikhail SHAPIRO
  • Compositions, methods and systems for gas vesicle based cavitation
    Patent number: 11446523
    Abstract: The system and process of therapeutic and effective cavitation by using ultrasound to collapse gas vesicles as well as cavitate the bubbles produced from the collapsed gas vesicles. Therapeutic effect includes, but is not limited to lysing cells by cavitation. The cells expressing the gas vesicles can optionally be used as delivery cells to preform tasks such as transporting the gas vesicles into deep tissue areas, releasing compounds at the cavitation site, and more. The gas vesicles can optionally be modified to facilitate getting the bubbles near the cavitation targets by functionalizing the gas vesicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Avinoam D. Bar-Zion, Atousa Nourmahnad, David Maresca, Mikhail Shapiro
  • COMPOSITIONS, METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR GAS VESICLE BASED CAVITATION
    Publication number: 20200306564
    Abstract: The system and process of therapeutic and effective cavitation by using ultrasound to collapse gas vesicles as well as cavitate the bubbles produced from the collapsed gas vesicles. Therapeutic effect includes, but is not limited to lysing cells by cavitation. The cells expressing the gas vesicles can optionally be used as delivery cells to preform tasks such as transporting the gas vesicles into deep tissue areas, releasing compounds at the cavitation site, and more. The gas vesicles can optionally be modified to facilitate getting the bubbles near the cavitation targets by functionalizing the gas vesicles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Avinoam D. BAR-ZION, Atousa NOURMAHNAD, David MARESCA, Mikhail SHAPIRO