Patents by Inventor Asmamaw Wassie

Asmamaw Wassie 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: 11971417
    Abstract: The present description provides methods, assays and reagents useful for sequencing proteins. Sequencing proteins in a broad sense involves observing the plausible identity and order of amino acids, which is useful for sequencing single polypeptide molecules or multiple molecules of a single polypeptide. In one aspect, the methods are useful for sequencing multiple polypeptides. The methods and reagents described herein can be useful for high resolution interrogation of the proteome and enabling ultrasensitive diagnostics critical for early detection of diseases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Daniel Masao Estandian, Alexi Georges Choueiri, Edward Stuart Boyden, Asmamaw Wassie
  • Publication number: 20240076752
    Abstract: The invention provides methods, kits, and related compositions for rapid, low-cost, point of care detection of an organism, such as a virus or bacteria, in a biological or environmental sample using isothermal nucleic acid amplification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2022
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Fahim Farzadfard, Asmamaw Wassie, Jeong Seuk Kang, Ho-Jun Suk, Kayla Vodehnal, Justin Liu, Jianghong Min
  • Publication number: 20230305017
    Abstract: The present description provides methods, assays and reagents useful for sequencing proteins. Sequencing proteins in a broad sense involves observing the plausible identity and order of amino acids, which is useful for sequencing single polypeptide molecules or multiple molecules of a single polypeptide. In one aspect, the methods are useful for sequencing multiple polypeptides. The methods and reagents described herein can be useful for high resolution interrogation of the proteome and enabling ultrasensitive diagnostics critical for early detection of diseases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2022
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Daniel Masao Estandian, Alexi Georges Choueiri, Edward Stuart Boyden, Asmamaw Wassie
  • Publication number: 20230193245
    Abstract: This disclosure provides methods and compositions for making and using a protein or peptide array.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Asmamaw Wassie, Annalisa Marie Pawlosky, Mariya Chavarha, Phillip Jess, Marc Berndl
  • Patent number: 11499979
    Abstract: The present description provides methods, assays and reagents useful for sequencing proteins. Sequencing proteins in a broad sense involves observing the plausible identity and order of amino acids, which is useful for sequencing single polypeptide molecules or multiple molecules of a single polypeptide. In one aspect, the methods are useful for sequencing multiple polypeptides. The methods and reagents described herein can be useful for high resolution interrogation of the proteome and enabling ultrasensitive diagnostics critical for early detection of diseases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Daniel Masao Estandian, Alexi Georges Choueiri, Edward Stuart Boyden, Asmamaw Wassie
  • Publication number: 20210395796
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for amplifying at least one target RNA in a fixed and, optionally, expanded biological sample. In an embodiment of the invention, the method comprises incubating the fixed biological sample with a pair of polynucleotides complementary to non-overlapping and proximal sequences of a target RNA, wherein the polynucleotide pair hybridizes to the target RNA; ligating the polynucleotide pair using a ligase; and amplifying the ligation product. The invention further provides methods for detecting and optionally quantifying and/or sequencing the amplification product. As the method comprises hybridizing polynucleotide pairs to a target RNA in a fixed biological sample, the target RNA can be hybridized in situ.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Inventors: Fei Chen, Asmamaw Wassie, Shahar Alon, Adam Henry Marblestone, Anubhav Sinha, Andrew C. Payne, Edward Stuart Boyden
  • Publication number: 20200217853
    Abstract: The present description provides methods, assays and reagents useful for sequencing proteins. Sequencing proteins in a broad sense involves observing the plausible identity and order of amino acids, which is useful for sequencing single polypeptide molecules or multiple molecules of a single polypeptide. In one aspect, the methods are useful for sequencing multiple polypeptides. The methods and reagents described herein can be useful for high resolution interrogation of the proteome and enabling ultrasensitive diagnostics critical for early detection of diseases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2020
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Inventors: Daniel Masao Estandian, Alexi Georges Choueiri, Edward Stuart Boyden, Asmamaw Wassie
  • Patent number: 10545145
    Abstract: The invention, in some aspects relates to compositions and methods for imaging biological systems and physiological activity and conditions in cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Or Shemesh, Asmamaw Wassie, Chih-Chieh Yu, Edward Boyden
  • Patent number: 10526649
    Abstract: The invention provides in situ nucleic acid sequencing to be conducted in biological specimens that have been physically expanded. The invention leverages the techniques for expansion microscopy (ExM) to provide new methods for in situ sequencing of nucleic acids in a process referred to herein as “expansion sequencing” (ExSEQ).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignees: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, President and Fellows of Harvard College
    Inventors: Fei Chen, Shahar Alon, Andrew Payne, Asmamaw Wassie, Daniel Goodwin, Edward Stuart Boyden, Evan Daugharthy, Jonathan Scheiman
  • Patent number: 10364457
    Abstract: The invention enables in situ genomic and transcriptomic assessment of nucleic acids to be conducted in biological specimens that have been physically expanded. The invention leverages the techniques for expansion microscopy (ExM) to provide new methods for in situ genomic and transcriptomic assessment of nucleic in a new process referred to herein as “expansion fluorescent in situ hybridization” (ExFISH).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Asmamaw Wassie, Fei Chen, Edward Stuart Boyden, Shahar Alon, George Church, Evan Daugharthy
  • Publication number: 20180119219
    Abstract: The invention provides in situ nucleic acid sequencing to be conducted in biological specimens that have been physically expanded. The invention leverages the techniques for expansion microscopy (ExM) to provide new methods for in situ sequencing of nucleic acids in a process referred to herein as “expansion sequencing” (ExSEQ).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Inventors: Fei Chen, Shahar Alon, Andrew Payne, Asmamaw Wassie, Daniel Goodwin, Edward Stuart Boyden
  • Publication number: 20170067096
    Abstract: The invention enables in situ genomic and transcriptomic assessment of nucleic acids to be conducted in biological specimens that have been physically expanded. The invention leverages the techniques for expansion microscopy (ExM) to provide new methods for in situ genomic and transcriptomic assessment of nucleic in a new process referred to herein as “expansion fluorescent in situ hybridization” (ExFISH).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2016
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Inventors: Asmamaw Wassie, Fei Chen, Edward Stuart Boyden, Shahar Alon
  • Publication number: 20160305939
    Abstract: The invention, in some aspects relates to compositions and methods for imaging biological systems and physiological activity and conditions in cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2016
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Or Shemesh, Asmamaw Wassie, Chih-Chieh Yu, Edward Boyden
  • Patent number: 9377447
    Abstract: In exemplary implementations of this invention, an electronic olfactor determines whether a scent being tested matches the scent of a positive control. The electronic olfactor can perform this scent matching even in a changing olfactory environment, and even if the positive control scent is a combination of hundreds or thousands of different odorants. No prior training is needed, and no attempt is made to identify a single odorant that is unambiguously responsible for a scent. Instead, a computer compares the total scent pattern of a positive control sample with the total scent pattern of a test sample, across a sweep of many permutations of electrical inputs to scent sensors, to try to find any condition under which the total scent patterns do not match. If such a condition cannot be found, then the computer declares a match between the test and target scents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Andreas Mershin, Asmamaw Wassie, Yael Maguire, David Kong, Shuguang Zhang, Patrick Moran, Karolina Corin
  • Publication number: 20150362469
    Abstract: In exemplary implementations of this invention, an electronic olfactor determines whether a scent being tested matches the scent of a positive control. The electronic olfactor can perform this scent matching even in a changing olfactory environment, and even if the positive control scent is a combination of hundreds or thousands of different odorants. No prior training is needed, and no attempt is made to identify a single odorant that is unambiguously responsible for a scent. Instead, a computer compares the total scent pattern of a positive control sample with the total scent pattern of a test sample, across a sweep of many permutations of electrical inputs to scent sensors, to try to find any condition under which the total scent patterns do not match. If such a condition cannot be found, then the computer declares a match between the test and target scents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2015
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Applicant: MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Andreas Mershin, Asmamaw Wassie, Yael Maguire, David Kong, Shuguang Zhang, Patrick Moran, Karolina Corin
  • Patent number: 9140677
    Abstract: In exemplary implementations of this invention, an electronic olfactor determines whether a scent being tested matches the scent of a positive control. The electronic olfactor can perform this scent matching even in a changing olfactory environment, and even if the positive control scent is a combination of hundreds or thousands of different odorants. No prior training is needed, and no attempt is made to identify a single odorant that is unambiguously responsible for a scent. Instead, a computer compares the total scent pattern of a positive control sample with the total scent pattern of a test sample, across a sweep of many permutations of electrical inputs to scent sensors, to try to find any condition under which the total scent patterns do not match. If such a condition cannot be found, then the computer declares a match between the test and target scents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Andreas Mershin, Asmamaw Wassie, Yael Maguire, David Kong, Shuguang Zhang, Patrick Moran, Karolina Corin
  • Publication number: 20140099729
    Abstract: In exemplary implementations of this invention, an electronic olfactor determines whether a scent being tested matches the scent of a positive control. The electronic olfactor can perform this scent matching even in a changing olfactory environment, and even if the positive control scent is a combination of hundreds or thousands of different odorants. No prior training is needed, and no attempt is made to identify a single odorant that is unambiguously responsible for a scent. Instead, a computer compares the total scent pattern of a positive control sample with the total scent pattern of a test sample, across a sweep of many permutations of electrical inputs to scent sensors, to try to find any condition under which the total scent patterns do not match. If such a condition cannot be found, then the computer declares a match between the test and target scents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2013
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Inventors: Andreas Mershin, Asmamaw Wassie, Yael Maguire, David Kong, Shuguang Zhang, Patrick Moran, Karolina Corin