Patents by Inventor Evan MACOSKO

Evan MACOSKO 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: 20260071269
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to compositions and methods for tracking and spatially localizing a cell-expressed fusion protein within the cell (with the fusion protein optionally associated with a subcellular compartment, organelle, synapse, or the like), in a manner that minimizes any disruptive impact upon the cell, at least until the detection process is initiated. Use of transcriptomics and/or barcode nucleic acid detection is employed to assess both spatial localization of intracellularly tagged fusion proteins and to establish cell-cell connectivity, e.g., in neurons across a synapse, by associating axonal identities with individual neurons at the molecular tag and transcriptome level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2025
    Publication date: March 12, 2026
    Applicants: THE BROAD INSTITUTE, INC., THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION, PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE
    Inventors: Michael John DOLAN, Alex BUCKLEY, Judy LUU, Michael KIM, Evan MACOSKO
  • Publication number: 20260009017
    Abstract: The technology described herein provides tissue dissociation well plates, devices, systems, and kits to isolate single-cells or a single-nuclei using wells with roughened, angled bottom surfaces to receive pipette tips delivering tissue samples and isolation buffers. In certain examples, the bottom surfaces of the wells are roughened to aid in breaking down the tissue sample. In other examples, the tip of the pipette is roughened or serrated to aid in breaking down the tissue sample. The wells may be arrayed in a solid rigid upper surface. The pipette tips deliver isolation buffers and/or dissociation fluids to the wells and the tissue samples. The fluid delivery is provided by pumps via one or more perfusion manifolds. A pipette adaptor raises, lowers, and twists the pipette tips. The pipette tips deliver the dissociation fluid, withdraw the tissue samples with a suction force, and return the tissue samples to the well with an expelling force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2025
    Publication date: January 8, 2026
    Applicants: The Broad Institute, Inc., The General Hospital Corporation, President and Fellows of Harvard College
    Inventors: Michael KIM, Evan MACOSKO, Naeem NADAF
  • Publication number: 20250340864
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein provide for spatially tagged nuclei that are compatible with any genomic or multiomic single cell/nuclei assay to allow generation of a spatially resolved single cell sequencing library with single cell resolution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2025
    Publication date: November 6, 2025
    Applicants: THE BROAD INSTITUTE, INC., PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE, THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fei CHEN, Evan MACOSKO, Andrew RUSSELL, Naeem NADAF, Jackson WEIR, Vipin KUMAR
  • Publication number: 20250327060
    Abstract: Compositions and methods for assessing relative macromolecule abundance (for example, RNA expression levels) in a spatially-defined manner across a tissue sample (for example, from brain, lung, liver, kidney, pancreas, and/or heart) are disclosed, specifically providing deep transcriptomic coverage at high-resolution (for example, at approximate 10 ?m (single cell) resolution) across multiple locations assessed across the tissue sample
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2025
    Publication date: October 23, 2025
    Applicants: THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION, THE BROAD INSTITUTE, INC., MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE
    Inventors: Evan MACOSKO, Fei CHEN, Sam RODRIQUES, Robert STICKELS, Caroline Anne MARTIN
  • Patent number: 12385033
    Abstract: Compositions and methods for assessing relative macromolecule abundance (for example, RNA expression levels) in a spatially-defined manner across a tissue sample (for example, from brain, lung, liver, kidney, pancreas, and/or heart) are disclosed, specifically providing deep transcriptomic coverage at high-resolution (for example, at approximate 10 ?m (single cell) resolution) across multiple locations assessed across the tissue sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignees: THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION, THE BROAD INSTITUTE, INC., MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE
    Inventors: Evan Macosko, Fei Chen, Sam Rodriques, Robert Stickels, Caroline Anne Martin
  • Publication number: 20240043915
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to compositions and methods for detecting nucleic acid sequences (e.g., coding and non-coding RNAs; nuclear/genomic DNA; mtDNA; pathogen nucleic acids, etc.) in a tissue sample, specifically providing improved matrices and matrix-employing methods for performance of nucleic acid capture and amplification in a tissue sample in situ and/or in a manner that retains spatial location information for captured nucleic acids (including nucleic acid-associated macromolecules).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicants: THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION, PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE, THE BROAD INSTITUTE, INC.
    Inventors: Evan Macosko, Nicolas Lapique, Michael Kim
  • Publication number: 20220389409
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to compositions and methods for assessing relative DNA levels (e.g., levels of genomic DNA, mtDNA, viral DNA, bacterial DNA, etc.) in a spatially-defined manner across a tissue sample, specifically providing DNA sequence identity and relative abundance information at high-resolution across multiple locations assessed across the tissue sample.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Applicants: THE BROAD INSTITUTE, INC., PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE, THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tongtong Zhao, Fei Chen, Jason Buenrostro, Evan Macosko
  • Patent number: 11225689
    Abstract: The present invention provides for methods of identifying cell types and cell subtypes from a biological sample or population of target cells. The methods further provide for determining cell type or cell subtype signatures. The method further provides for bipolar cell subtypes and markers and cell signatures thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignees: The Broad Institute, Inc., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, President and Fellows of Harvard College
    Inventors: Karthik Shekhar, Sylvain Lapan, Irene Whitney, Evan Macosko, Steven McCarroll, Constance Cepko, Aviv Regev, Joshua Sanes
  • Publication number: 20210123040
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to compositions and methods for assessing relative macromolecule abundance (e.g., RNA expression levels) in a spatially-defined manner across a tissue sample, specifically providing deep transcriptomic coverage at high-resolution across multiple locations assessed across the tissue sample.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2019
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Applicants: THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION, THE BROAD INSTITUTE, INC., MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE
    Inventors: Evan Macosko, Fei Chen, Sam Rodriques, Robert Stickels, Carly Martin
  • Publication number: 20180127823
    Abstract: The present invention provides for methods of identifying cell types and cell subtypes from a biological sample or population of target cells. The methods further provide for determining cell type or cell subtype signatures. The method further provides for bipolar cell subtypes and markers and cell signatures thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2017
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Inventors: Karthik SHEKHAR, Sylvain LAPAN, Irene WHITNEY, Evan MACOSKO, Steven MCCARROLL, Constance CEPKO, Aviv REGEV, Joshua SANES