Patents by Inventor Evan R. Daugharthy

Evan R. Daugharthy 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: 12264358
    Abstract: Methods of selectively sequencing amplicons in a biological sample are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: President and Fellows of Harvard College
    Inventors: George M. Church, Jehyuk Lee, Richard C. Terry, Evan R. Daugharthy
  • Publication number: 20240327901
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a number of targeted nucleic acid FISSEQ library construction methods. Targeted FISSEQ can exhibit several benefits, such as enhanced sensitivity and/or shorter assay time in the detection, identification, quantification, and/or determining the nucleotide sequence of the target species, relative to “random” or “whole-omic” detection via FISSEQ.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Inventors: George M. Church, Evan R. Daugharthy, Richard C. Terry, Benjamin W. Pruitt, Brian M. Turczyk
  • Publication number: 20240301468
    Abstract: Methods of making a three-dimensional matrix of nucleic acids within a cell is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2024
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Inventors: George M. Church, Je-hyuk Lee, Richard C. Terry, Evan R. Daugharthy
  • Publication number: 20240287582
    Abstract: Methods of making a three-dimensional matrix of nucleic acids within a cell is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2024
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Inventors: George M. Church, Je-hyuk Lee, Richard C. Terry, Evan R. Daugharthy
  • Publication number: 20240124932
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a method for detecting a target analyte in a biological sample including contacting the sample with one or more probe sets each comprising a primary probe and a linker, contacting the sample with an initiator sequence, contacting the sample with a plurality of fluorescent DNA hairpins, wherein the probe binds the target molecule, the linker connects the probe to the initiator sequence, and wherein the initiator sequence nucleates with the cognate hairpin and triggers self-assembly of tethered fluorescent amplification polymers, and detecting the target molecule by measuring fluorescent signal of the sample.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Evan R. Daugharthy, George M. Church
  • Publication number: 20230323437
    Abstract: The present disclosure in some aspects relates to methods and compositions for accurately detecting and quantifying multiple analytes present in a biological sample. In some aspects, the methods and compositions provided herein address one or more issues associated with the stability and/or size of nucleic acid structures such as rolling circle amplification products in the biological sample.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: 10x Genomics, Inc.
    Inventors: Hong CHEN, Evan R. DAUGHARTHY, Shoshoni DROZ, Milena LAZOVA, Zhao ZHAO
  • Publication number: 20230279484
    Abstract: Methods of volumetric imaging of a three-dimensional matrix of nucleic acids within a cell is provided. An automated apparatus for sequencing and volumetric imaging of a three-dimensional matrix of nucleic acids is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Evan R. Daugharthy, Richard C. Terry, Je-Hyuk Lee, George M. Church, Benjamin W. Pruitt
  • Patent number: 11718874
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a method for detecting a target analyte in a biological sample including contacting the sample with one or more probe sets each comprising a primary probe and a linker, contacting the sample with an initiator sequence, contacting the sample with a plurality of fluorescent DNA hairpins, wherein the probe binds the target molecule, the linker connects the probe to the initiator sequence, and wherein the initiator sequence nucleates with the cognate hairpin and triggers self-assembly of tethered fluorescent amplification polymers, and detecting the target molecule by measuring fluorescent signal of the sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: President and Fellows of Harvard College
    Inventors: Evan R. Daugharthy, George M. Church
  • Patent number: 11713485
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a method for detecting a target analyte in a biological sample including contacting the sample with one or more probe sets each comprising a primary probe and a linker, contacting the sample with an initiator sequence, contacting the sample with a plurality of fluorescent DNA hairpins, wherein the probe binds the target molecule, the linker connects the probe to the initiator sequence, and wherein the initiator sequence nucleates with the cognate hairpin and triggers self-assembly of tethered fluorescent amplification polymers, and detecting the target molecule by measuring fluorescent signal of the sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: President and Fellows of Harvard College
    Inventors: Evan R. Daugharthy, George M. Church
  • Publication number: 20230227895
    Abstract: Methods of labelling one or more subcellular components (e.g., an organelle and/or subcellular region) in vivo are provided. Methods of labelling a protein in vivo are provided. Methods of determining a nucleic acid sequence in situ are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2023
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventors: George M. Church, Je-Hyuk Lee, Evan R. Daugharthy
  • Patent number: 11697839
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of identifying a target genomic nucleic acid sequence including hybridizing a set of probes to the target genomic nucleic acid sequence, wherein the set of probes has a unique associated barcode sequence for identification of the target genomic nucleic acid sequence, wherein each probe of the set includes (1) a complementary sequence complementary to a first strand of the target genomic nucleic acid sequence and (2) the associated barcode sequence or a portion of the associated barcode sequence, sequencing the associated barcode sequence from probes hybridized to the target genomic nucleic acid sequence using a fluorescence-based sequencing method, and identifying the target genomic nucleic acid sequence by the sequenced barcode sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: President and Fellows of Harvard College
    Inventors: Evan R. Daugharthy, Son C. Nguyen, Chao-ting Wu, George M. Church
  • Publication number: 20230146821
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods that combine RNA fluorescent in situ sequencing (FISSEQ) with other molecular detection modalities, forming an integrated panomic detection platform. In various embodiments, the present disclosure provides systems and methods to prepare a biological sample to preserve the spatial relationships of biomolecules of interest within the biological sample for FISSEQ detection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2022
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Inventors: George M. Church, Evan R. Daugharthy, Richard C. Terry
  • Publication number: 20230015226
    Abstract: The present application provides methods, compositions, and kits for analyzing a biological sample embedded in a three-dimensional polymerized matrix using a primer-exchange reaction (PER). In some embodiments, the methods comprise contacting the sample with a nucleic acid molecule that directly or indirectly binds to an analyte in the sample and immobilizing the nucleic acid molecule in the matrix, wherein the nucleic acid molecule comprises a free 3? priming region for initiation of PER. In some embodiments, the methods enable sensitive detection of the identity and relative position of analytes in the sample.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Hong CHEN, Evan R. DAUGHARTHY, Zhao ZHAO
  • Publication number: 20230013775
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates in some aspects to methods for preparing biological samples for in situ analysis of one or more analytes, wherein the biological sample has been previously affixed to a substrate, which is not compatible with in situ analysis, for example, due to the absence of positional markers and/or fiducial markers and/or a region suitable for in situ signal detection on the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Hong CHEN, Evan R. DAUGHARTHY
  • Patent number: 11542554
    Abstract: Methods of volumetric imaging of a three-dimensional matrix of nucleic acids within a cell is provided. An automated apparatus for sequencing and volumetric imaging of a three-dimensional matrix of nucleic acids is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: President and Fellows of Harvard College
    Inventors: Evan R. Daugharthy, Richard C. Terry, Je-Hyuk Lee, George M. Church, Benjamin W. Pruitt
  • Publication number: 20220309092
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for processing spatially related sequence data received from a sequencing device are presented. In one or more embodiments, a computing platform may receive, from a sequencing device, image data associated with a sample. The computing platform may identify, based on the image data received from the sequencing device, a first sequence located at first spatial coordinates. Subsequently, the computing platform may store, in a spatially searchable database, a first data element comprising the first spatial coordinates and a first identifier corresponding to the first sequence to spatially relate the first sequence to other sequences present in the sample.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Evan R. Daugharthy, Vivek Dasari, George M. Church
  • Patent number: 11447807
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods that combine RNA fluorescent in situ sequencing (FISSEQ) with other molecular detection modalities, forming an integrated panomic detection platform. In various embodiments, the present disclosure provides systems and methods to prepare a biological sample to preserve the spatial relationships of biomolecules of interest within the biological sample for FISSEQ detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: President and Fellows of Harvard College
    Inventors: George M. Church, Evan R. Daugharthy, Richard C. Terry
  • Publication number: 20220228196
    Abstract: Methods of making a three-dimensional matrix of nucleic acids within a cell is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Inventors: George M. Church, Je-Hyuk Lee, Richard C. Terry, Evan R. Daugharthy
  • Patent number: 11299767
    Abstract: Methods of making a three-dimensional matrix of nucleic acids within a cell is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: President and Fellows of Harvard College
    Inventors: George M. Church, Je-Hyuk Lee, Richard C. Terry, Evan R. Daugharthy
  • Publication number: 20210381049
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a method for detecting a target analyte in a biological sample including contacting the sample with one or more probe sets each comprising a primary probe and a linker, contacting the sample with an initiator sequence, contacting the sample with a plurality of fluorescent DNA hairpins, wherein the probe binds the target molecule, the linker connects the probe to the initiator sequence, and wherein the initiator sequence nucleates with the cognate hairpin and triggers self-assembly of tethered fluorescent amplification polymers, and detecting the target molecule by measuring fluorescent signal of the sample.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Inventors: Evan R. Daugharthy, George M. Church