Patents by Inventor Andrew Sparks

Andrew Sparks 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: 20240361309
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods for determining a property of target analyte in a sample. The systems and methods use a sensor assembly comprising plural sensing sites, each of the sensing sites comprising a capture species configured to specifically bind with the same target analyte. Each capture species is different and has a different binding affinity for the target analyte to the capture species on the other of the plural sensing sites.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Inventors: Andrew SPARKS, Helen BERNEY
  • Publication number: 20230010287
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods and compositions for carrying out nucleic acid sequencing, particularly paired-end sequencing. The methods use concatemeric sequencing templates that can be produced by rolling circle amplification of asymmetric circular nucleic acids having a central double-stranded region comprising a target nucleic acid sequence that is connected at each end to form a circular construct.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Inventors: Jeremiah Hanes, Robert H. Reamey, Lin Wang, Fabian Block, Kurt Patterson, Brittany Ann Rohrman, Andrew Sparks, Evan Hurowitz, Joan Wilson, Min-Jui Richard Shen
  • Publication number: 20220372562
    Abstract: The present invention provides assay systems and methods for detection of copy number variation at one or more loci and polymorphism detection at one or more loci in a mixed sample from an individual.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Inventors: Andrew Sparks, Craig Struble, Eric Wang, Arnold Oliphant
  • Publication number: 20220305490
    Abstract: Embodiments in accordance with the present disclosure are directed to configuring an analyzer apparatus for processing a particular sample-processing cartridge. The analyzer apparatus includes a portable container and sample-specific configuration circuitry. The portable container supports and integrates a sample-processing cartridge and the sample-specific configuration circuitry. The sample-specific configuration circuitry identifies configuration information specific to the sample-processing cartridge and configures the analyzer apparatus for a series of state configurations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: BIOCERYX TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventors: Kirk Bradley, David Devine, Andrew Sparks, Janice Li, Thomas Musci, Robert Balog
  • Publication number: 20220205041
    Abstract: Methods for detecting genomic rearrangements are provided. In one embodiment, methods are provided for the use of paired end tags from restriction fragments to detect genomic rearrangements. Sequences from the ends of the fragments are brought together to form ditags and the ditags are detected. Combinations of ditags are detected by an on-chip sequencing strategy that is described herein, using inosine for de novo sequencing of short segments of DNA. In another aspect, translocations are identified by using target specific capture and analysis of the captured products on a tiling array.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Andrew Sparks, Michael H. Shapero, Glenn K. Fu, Keith W. Jones
  • Patent number: 11358141
    Abstract: Embodiments in accordance with the present disclosure are directed to configuring an analyzer apparatus for processing a particular sample-processing cartridge. The analyzer apparatus includes a portable container and sample-specific configuration circuitry. The portable container supports and integrates a sample-processing cartridge and the sample-specific configuration circuitry. The sample-specific configuration circuitry identifies configuration information specific to the sample-processing cartridge and configures the analyzer apparatus for a series of state configurations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: BIOCERYX TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventors: Kirk Bradley, David Devine, Andrew Sparks, Janice Li, Thomas Musci, Robert Balog
  • Patent number: 11319578
    Abstract: The present invention provides assays systems and methods for detection of chromosomal abnormalities and status of single loci associated with monogenic or polygenic traits in a sample containing nucleic acids from a maternal and a fetal source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Roche Molecular Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Sparks, Arnold Oliphant, Jacob Zahn, Ken Song, John Stuelpnagel
  • Patent number: 11299772
    Abstract: The present invention provides assay systems and methods for detection of copy number variation at one or more loci and polymorphism detection at one or more loci in a mixed sample from an individual.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Ariosa Diagnostics, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Sparks, Craig Struble, Eric Wang, Arnold Oliphant
  • Patent number: 11091807
    Abstract: The present invention provides assay systems and methods for detection of copy number variation at one or more loci and polymorphism detection at one or more loci in a mixed sample from an individual.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Ariosa Diagnostics, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Sparks, Arnold Oliphant, Jacob Zahn, Ken Song, John Stuelpnagel
  • Publication number: 20210189493
    Abstract: The present invention provides processes for determining accurate risk probabilities for fetal aneuploidies. Specifically, the invention provides non-invasive evaluation of genomic variations through chromosome-selective sequencing and non-host fraction data analysis of maternal samples.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Arnold Oliphant, Andrew Sparks, Eric Wang, Craig Struble
  • Patent number: 10954566
    Abstract: The present invention provides assays systems and methods for detection of genetic variants in a sample, including copy number variation and single nucleotide polymorphisms. The invention preferably employs the technique of tandem ligation—, e.g., the ligation of two or more fixed sequence oligonucleotides and one or more bridging oligonucleotides complementary to a region between the fixed sequence oligonucleotides—combined with detection of levels of particular genomic regions using array hybridization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Ariosa Diagnostics, Inc.
    Inventors: Arnold Oliphant, Andrew Sparks, John Stuelpnagel, Ken Song
  • Patent number: 10907198
    Abstract: The present invention provides assays systems and methods for detection of chromosomal abnormalities and status of single loci associated with monogenic or polygenic traits in a sample containing nucleic acids from a maternal and a fetal source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Ariosa Diagnostics, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Sparks, Arnold Oliphant, Jacob Zahn, Ken Song, John Stuelpnagel
  • Patent number: 10718024
    Abstract: The present invention provides processes for determining accurate risk probabilities for fetal aneuploidies. Specifically, the invention provides non-invasive evaluation of genomic variations through chromosome-selective sequencing and non-host fraction data analysis of maternal samples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Ariosa Diagnostics, Inc.
    Inventors: Arnold Oliphant, Andrew Sparks, Eric Wang, Craig Struble
  • Patent number: 10718019
    Abstract: The present invention provides processes for determining accurate risk probabilities for fetal aneuploidies. Specifically, the invention provides non-invasive evaluation of genomic variations through chromosome-selective sequencing and non-host fraction data analysis of maternal samples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Ariosa Diagnostics, Inc.
    Inventors: Arnold Oliphant, Andrew Sparks, Eric Wang, Craig Struble
  • Publication number: 20200109450
    Abstract: The present invention provides assays systems and methods for detection of genetic variants in a sample, including copy number variation and single nucleotide polymorphisms. The invention preferably employs the technique of tandem ligation—, e.g., the ligation of two or more fixed sequence oligonucleotides and one or more bridging oligonucleotides complementary to a region between the fixed sequence oligonucleotides—combined with detection of levels of particular genomic regions using array hybridization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Inventors: Arnold Oliphant, Andrew Sparks, John Stuelpnagel, Ken Song
  • Publication number: 20190355443
    Abstract: The invention provides processes of the present invention provide normalization procedures for sequences within multiplexed data sets using the sequence information from multiplexed sequencing data set itself rather than the utilization of any external references.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Arnold Oliphant, Andrew Sparks, Eric Wang, Craig Struble
  • Patent number: D1004479
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Edmonds Outdoors, LLC
    Inventor: Gene Andrew Sparks
  • Patent number: D1011874
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Edmonds Outdoors, LLC
    Inventors: Addison Edmonds, Colton Gray Breeding, Gene Andrew Sparks
  • Patent number: D1026581
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Edmonds Outdoors, LLC
    Inventors: Addison Edmonds, Gene Andrew Sparks, Colton Gray Breeding
  • Patent number: D1045254
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Edmonds Outdoors, LLC
    Inventors: Addison Edmonds, Gene Andrew Sparks, Colton Gray Breeding