Patents by Inventor Charles Knight

Charles Knight 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).

  • Publication number: 20240182953
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods for detecting a single-stranded target RNA. The present disclosure provides methods of cleaving a precursor C2c2 guide RNA array into two or more C2c2 guide RNAs. The present disclosure provides a kit for detecting a target RNA in a sample.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2023
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Inventors: Jennifer A. Doudna, Mitchell Ray O'Connell, Alexandra East-Seletsky, Spencer Charles Knight, James Harrison Doudna Cate
  • Patent number: 11987778
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, apparatuses, and methods for preparing cell-based meat products (i.e., comestible meat products). In particular, a pipe-based bioreactor is disclosed having one or more substrates disposed therein. In one or more embodiments, the one or more substrates comprise a plurality of nominally spaced substrates conforming to an interior profile of an elongated enclosure of the pipe-based bioreactor. In some embodiments, multiple pipe-based bioreactors are interconnected a fluid source for preparing cell-based meat products. In addition, various methods and procedures for utilizing embodiments of pipe-based bioreactors are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Upside Foods, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles Knight Benton, Konrad Müller-Auffermann
  • Patent number: 11981884
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, apparatuses, and methods for preparing cell-based meat products (i.e., comestible meat products). In particular, a pipe-based bioreactor is disclosed having one or more substrates disposed therein. In one or more embodiments, the one or more substrates comprise a plurality of nominally spaced substrates conforming to an interior profile of an elongated enclosure of the pipe-based bioreactor. In some embodiments, multiple pipe-based bioreactors are interconnected a fluid source for preparing cell-based meat products. In addition, various methods and procedures for utilizing embodiments of pipe-based bioreactors are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Upside Foods, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles Knight Benton, Konrad Müller-Auffermann
  • Publication number: 20240124817
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, apparatuses, and methods for preparing cell-based meat products (i.e., comestible meat products). In particular, a pipe-based bioreactor is disclosed having one or more substrates disposed therein. In one or more embodiments, the one or more substrates comprise a plurality of nominally spaced substrates conforming to an interior profile of an elongated enclosure of the pipe-based bioreactor. In some embodiments, multiple pipe-based bioreactors are interconnected a fluid source for preparing cell-based meat products. In addition, various methods and procedures for utilizing embodiments of pipe-based bioreactors are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Charles Knight Benton, Konrad Müller-Auffermann
  • Publication number: 20240124816
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, apparatuses, and methods for preparing cell-based meat products (i.e., comestible meat products). In particular, a pipe-based bioreactor is disclosed having one or more substrates disposed therein. In one or more embodiments, the one or more substrates comprise a plurality of nominally spaced substrates conforming to an interior profile of an elongated enclosure of the pipe-based bioreactor. In some embodiments, multiple pipe-based bioreactors are interconnected a fluid source for preparing cell-based meat products. In addition, various methods and procedures for utilizing embodiments of pipe-based bioreactors are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Charles Knight Benton, Konrad Müller-Auffermann
  • Patent number: 11840725
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods for detecting a single-stranded target RNA. The present disclosure provides methods of cleaving a precursor C2c2 guide RNA array into two or more C2c2 guide RNAs. The present disclosure provides a kit for detecting a target RNA in a sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Jennifer A. Doudna, Mitchell Ray O′Connell, Alexandra East-Seletsky, Spencer Charles Knight, James Harrison Doudna Cate
  • Patent number: 11827919
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods for detecting a single-stranded target RNA. The present disclosure provides methods of cleaving a precursor C2c2 guide RNA array into two or more C2c2 guide RNAs. The present disclosure provides a kit for detecting a target RNA in a sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Jennifer A Doudna, Mitchell Ray O'Connell, Alexandra East-Seletsky, Spencer Charles Knight, James Harrison Doudna Cate
  • Publication number: 20230372868
    Abstract: Examples relate to systems and methods for concentrating acetic acid solutions using multi-tier ultrahigh pressure (“UHP”) reverse osmosis. Along with an acetic acid product having a concentration of at least 25 weight percent (wt %), the systems and methods disclosed herein simultaneously provide water with an acetic acid concentration of 2 wt % or less in at little as three tiers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Applicant: PORIFERA, INC.
    Inventor: CHARLES KNIGHT BENTON
  • Publication number: 20230307086
    Abstract: Methods and systems for determining an effectiveness of a drug (e.g., on- and off-target effects) may comprise: generating a latent space representation, which represents phenotypic states of a cell type, of nucleic acid sequence data for diseased and normal cells of the cell type; identifying, based at least in part on the latent space topology, a target genomic region; mapping sequence data of a first cell of the cell type, which has been modified, to the latent space to yield a first latent space representation; mapping sequence data of a second cell of the cell type, which has been exposed to the drug and exhibited the first phenotypic state before exposure, to the latent space to yield a second latent space representation; and determining, based at least in part on the first and second latent space representations, the effectiveness of the drug.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Chun-Hao Huang, Spencer Charles Knight, Ko-Chuan Lee
  • Patent number: 11710536
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods and systems for identification of genomic regions for therapeutic targeting. A method for identifying one or more genomic regions for therapeutic targeting, which may facilitate re-programming of a cell from one phenotypic state to another, may comprise: providing single-cell RNA-seq data for a plurality of diseased cells and a plurality of normal cells of a cell type; mapping the single-cell RNA-seq data for the plurality of diseased cells and the plurality of normal cells into a latent space corresponding to a plurality of phenotypic states of the cell type; identifying, based at least in part on a topology of the latent space, the one or more genomic regions for therapeutic targeting; and electronically outputting the one or more genomic regions for therapeutic targeting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Algen Biotechnologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Spencer Charles Knight, Chun-Hao Huang
  • Publication number: 20230016040
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides isolated Paenibacillus strains useful for fixing atmospheric nitrogen and enhancing crop yield, as well as inoculant compositions comprising one or more of the isolated strains, seeds that have been treated with one or more of the isolated strains, and methods of using the isolated strains to improve nitrogen content, crop yield, etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: NOVOZYMES BIOAG A/S
    Inventors: William Nathan Cude, Hugh Young, Leah Blasiak, Kelly Leanne Rowells, Timothy Liburn, Charles Hall, Maria Tang, Charles Knight
  • Patent number: 11459599
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods for detecting a single-stranded target RNA. The present disclosure provides methods of cleaving a precursor C2c2 guide RNA array into two or more C2c2 guide RNAs. The present disclosure provides a kit for detecting a target RNA in a sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Jennifer A. Doudna, Mitchell Ray O'Connell, Alexandra East-Seletsky, Spencer Charles Knight, James Harrison Doudna Cate
  • Patent number: 11459600
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods for detecting a single-stranded target RNA. The present disclosure provides methods of cleaving a precursor C2c2 guide RNA array into two or more C2c2 guide RNAs. The present disclosure provides a kit for detecting a target RNA in a sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Jennifer A. Doudna, Mitchell Ray O'Connell, Alexandra East-Seletsky, Spencer Charles Knight, James Harrison Doudna Cate
  • Publication number: 20220262459
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods and systems for identification of genomic regions for therapeutic targeting. A method for identifying one or more genomic regions for therapeutic targeting, which may facilitate re-programming of a cell from one phenotypic state to another, may comprise: providing single-cell RNA-seq data for a plurality of diseased cells and a plurality of normal cells of a cell type; mapping the single-cell RNA-seq data for the plurality of diseased cells and the plurality of normal cells into a latent space corresponding to a plurality of phenotypic states of the cell type; identifying, based at least in part on a topology of the latent space, the one or more genomic regions for therapeutic targeting; and electronically outputting the one or more genomic regions for therapeutic targeting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2022
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Spencer Charles Knight, Chun-Hao Huang
  • Publication number: 20220254440
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods and systems for identification of genomic regions for therapeutic targeting. A method for identifying one or more genomic regions for therapeutic targeting, which may facilitate re-programming of a cell from one phenotypic state to another, may comprise: providing single-cell RNA-seq data for a plurality of diseased cells and a plurality of normal cells of a cell type; mapping the single-cell RNA-seq data for the plurality of diseased cells and the plurality of normal cells into a latent space corresponding to a plurality of phenotypic states of the cell type; identifying, based at least in part on a topology of the latent space, the one or more genomic regions for therapeutic targeting; and electronically outputting the one or more genomic regions for therapeutic targeting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Spencer Charles Knight, Chun-Hao Huang
  • Publication number: 20220193109
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to compositions and methods for the treatment of a RAS-mutant cancer. In particular, the present technology relates to administering a therapeutically effective amount of one or more TXNRD1 inhibitors to a subject diagnosed with, or at risk for a RAS-mutant cancer (e.g., RAS-mutant pancreatic cancer).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Chun-Hao HUANG, Spencer Charles KNIGHT, Scott LOWE
  • Publication number: 20200010878
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods for detecting a single-stranded target RNA. The present disclosure provides methods of cleaving a precursor C2c2 guide RNA array into two or more C2c2 guide RNAs. The present disclosure provides a kit for detecting a target RNA in a sample.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Inventors: Jennifer A. Doudna, Mitchell Ray O'Connell, Alexandra East-Seletsky, Spencer Charles Knight, James Harrison Doudna Cate
  • Publication number: 20200010879
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods for detecting a single-stranded target RNA. The present disclosure provides methods of cleaving a precursor C2c2 guide RNA array into two or more C2c2 guide RNAs. The present disclosure provides a kit for detecting a target RNA in a sample.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Inventors: Jennifer A. Doudna, Mitchell Ray O'Connell, Alexandra East-Seletsky, Spencer Charles Knight, James Harrison Doudna Cate
  • Patent number: 10494664
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods for detecting a single-stranded target RNA. The present disclosure provides methods of cleaving a precursor C2c2 guide RNA array into two or more C2c2 guide RNAs. The present disclosure provides a kit for detecting a target RNA in a sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Jennifer A. Doudna, Mitchell Ray O'Connell, Alexandra East-Seletsky, Spencer Charles Knight, James Harrison Doudna Cate
  • Patent number: 10337051
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods for detecting a single-stranded target RNA. The present disclosure provides methods of cleaving a precursor C2c2 guide RNA array into two or more C2c2 guide RNAs. The present disclosure provides a kit for detecting a target RNA in a sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Jennifer A. Doudna, Mitchell Ray O'Connell, Alexandra East-Seletsky, Spencer Charles Knight, James Harrison Doudna Cate