Patents by Inventor Rebekah Kading

Rebekah Kading 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).

  • System for the biocontrol of disease-transmitting mosquitoes and their eggs using horizontally transferable symbiotic bacteria to deliver pathogen specific interfering RNA polynucleotides
    Patent number: 11396653
    Abstract: The inventive technology relates to novel paratransgenic strategies for the control of pathogens. The inventive technology may specifically include a novel paratransgenic system configured to deliver one or more inhibitory RNA molecules to pathogen/disease-transmitting organisms. In a preferred embodiment, the invention may include one or more genetically engineered symbiotic bacteria configured to persist throughout the life-cycle of a mosquito and deliver one or more interfering RNA molecules to pathogen/disease-transmitting mosquitoes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignees: PEBBLE LABS INC., COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Richard Sayre, Jiannong Xu, Bradley R. Borlee, Konstantinos Lymperopoulos, Rebekah Kading, William Black, Kenneth Olson, Carol Blair