Patents by Inventor Geoffrey von Maltzahn

Geoffrey von Maltzahn 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: 20220128571
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and products associated with in vivo enzyme profiling. In particular, the invention relates to methods of in vivo processing of exogenous molecules followed by detection of signature molecules as representative of the presence of active enzymes associated with diseases or conditions. The invention also relates to products, kits, and databases for use in the methods of the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Sangeeta N. Bhatia, Geoffrey A. von Maltzahn, Gabriel A. Kwong
  • Patent number: 11266699
    Abstract: Provided are therapeutic compositions containing microbial populations for prevention, treatment and reduction of symptoms associated with a dysbiosis of a mammalian subject such as a human.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Seres Therapeutics, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew R. Henn, Kevin Daniel Litcofsky, Anthony Mario D'Onofrio, Toshiro K. Ohsumi, Mary-Jane Lombardo McKenzie, Geoffrey von Maltzahn, David N. Cook, David Arthur Berry, Noubar B. Afeyan, John Grant Aunins
  • Patent number: 11254908
    Abstract: This application relates to methods and materials for providing a benefit to a seed, seedling or plant by producing seeds that are internally colonized with endophytes. Beneficial endophytes with particular characteristics are provided. These may be used in the methods described to provide a benefit to a seed, seedling or plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignees: Indigo Ag, Inc., AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GMBH
    Inventors: Birgit Mitter, Muhammad Naveed, Teresa Berninger, Stephane Compant, Angela Sessitsch, Geoffrey Von Maltzahn, Richard Bailey Flavell, Gerardo V. Toledo, Slavica Djonovic, Luis Miguel Marquez, David Morris Johnston, Yves Alain Millet, Jeffrey Lyford, Jonathan W. Leff, Phillip Samayoa, Craig Sadowski
  • Patent number: 11229660
    Abstract: Preparations of glycan therapeutics, pharmaceutical compositions and medical foods thereof, optionally comprising micronutrients, polyphenols, prebiotics, probiotics, or other agents are provided and methods of making same. Also provided are methods of using said gycan therapeutics, e.g. for the modulation of human gastrointestinal microbiota and to treat dysbioses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Kaleido Biosciences, Inc.
    Inventors: Geoffrey A. von Maltzahn, Jared Silverman, Yvonne J. Yamanaka, John Miles Milwid, John M. Geremia
  • Publication number: 20220008557
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides, at least in part, methods and compositions for in vivo fusosome delivery. In some embodiments, the fusosome comprises a combination of elements that promote specificity for target cells, e.g., one or more of a fusogen, a positive target cell-specific regulatory element, and a non-target cell-specific regulatory element. In some embodiments, the fusosome comprises one or more modifications that decrease an immune response against the fusosome.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: Geoffrey A. von Maltzahn, Jacob Rosenblum Rubens, Jagesh Vijaykumar Shah, Albert Ruzo Matias, Ferdinando Pucci, John Miles Milwid, Michael Travis Mee, Neal Francis Gordon
  • Publication number: 20210401861
    Abstract: Preparations of glycan therapeutics, pharmaceutical compositions, dietary supplements and medical foods thereof are provided, and methods of using said glycan therapeutics, e.g. in cancer therapy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: Kaleido Biosciences, Inc.
    Inventors: Geoffrey A. von Maltzahn, Yvonne J. Yamanaka, Jared Silverman, John Miles Milwid, Jacob Rosenblum Rubens, John M. Geremia
  • Patent number: 11197457
    Abstract: This invention relates to methods and materials for providing a benefit to a plant by associating the plant with a complex endophyte comprising a host fungus further comprising a component bacterium, including benefits to a plant derived from a seed or other plant element treated with a complex endophyte. For example, this invention provides purified complex endophytes, purified complex endophyte components such as bacteria or fungi, synthetic combinations comprising said complex endophytes and/or components, and methods of making and using the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: Indigo Ag, Inc.
    Inventors: Karen V. Ambrose, Brett A. Boghigian, Slavica Djonovic, Paul Andrew Gray, Gerardo V. Toledo, Luis Miguel Marquez, Julianne Naomi Pelaez, Geoffrey von Maltzahn
  • Publication number: 20210372997
    Abstract: This application relates to methods and materials for providing a benefit to a seed or seedling of an agricultural plant (e.g., an agricultural grass plant or a Glycine plant), or the agricultural plant derived from the seed or seedling. For example, this application provides purified bacterial populations that include novel seed bacterial endophytes, and synthetic combinations of seeds and/or seedlings (e.g., cereal or soy seeds and/or cereal or soy seedlings) with heterologous seed-derived bacterial endophytes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: Geoffrey Von Maltzahn, Richard Bailey Flavell, Gerardo V. Toledo, Allison Jack, David Morris Johnston, Slavica Djonovic, Luis Miguel Marquez, Yves Alain Millet, Craig Sadowski, Jeffrey Lyford, Alexander Naydich
  • Publication number: 20210363480
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of scalably producing microorganisms by propagating them within plant tissues and introducing them into agricultural seeds to improve their shelf-life during long-term storage, to produce substances of interest, and to create libraries of microbes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Inventors: Birgit MITTER, Muhammad NAVEED, Teresa BERNINGER, Stephane COMPANT, Angela SESSITSCH, Geoffrey VON MALTZAHN, Richard Bailey FLAVELL, Gerardo V. TOLEDO, Slavica DJONOVIC, Luis Miguel MARQUEZ, David Morris JOHNSTON, Yves Alain MILLET, Jeffrey LYFORD, Jonathan W. LEFF, Phillip SAMAYOA, Craig SADOWSKI
  • Publication number: 20210353543
    Abstract: Provided herein are lipid particles containing a lipid bilayer enclosing a lumen or cavity, a henipavirus F protein molecule or biologically active portion thereof, and a targeted envelope protein containing a henipavirus envelope attachment glycoprotein G (G protein) or biologically active portion thereof and a binding domain, such as a single domain antibody (sdAb) variable domain. Also provided herein are targeted envelope proteins containing a G protein fused or linked to a binding domain, such as a sdAb variable domain, and polynucleotides encoding such proteins. Also provided are producer cells and compositions containing such targeted lipid particles and methods of making and using the targeted lipid particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Applicants: Sana Biotechnology, Inc., Flagship Pioneering Innovations V, Inc.
    Inventors: Kyle Marvin TRUDEAU, Christopher BANDORO, Lauren Pepper MACKENZIE, Jagesh Vijaykumar SHAH, Geoffrey A. VON MALTZAHN, Jacob Rosenblum RUBENS, Michael Travis MEE
  • Patent number: 11166465
    Abstract: This application relates to methods and materials for providing a benefit to a seed or seedling of an agricultural plant (e.g., an agricultural grass plant), or the agricultural plant derived from the seed or seedling. For example, this application provides purified bacterial populations that include novel seed-origin bacterial endophytes, and synthetic combinations of seeds and/or seedlings (e.g., cereal seeds and/or seedlings) with heterologous seed-derived bacterial endophytes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Indigo Ag, Inc.
    Inventors: Geoffrey von Maltzahn, Richard Bailey Flavell, Gerardo V. Toledo, Slavica Djonovic, Luis Miguel Marquez, David Morris Johnston, Yves Alain Millet, Jeffrey Lyford, Alexander Naydich, Craig Sadowski
  • Publication number: 20210299191
    Abstract: Provided are defined bacterial compositions for the maintenance or restoration of a healthy microbiota in the gastrointestinal tract of a mammalian subject, and methods for populating the gastrointestinal tract of a subject. Provided also are bacterial formulations for oral or gastric administration to a mammalian subject in an effective amount for prevention or treatment of a gastrointestinal disease, disorder or condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: Seres Therapeutics, Inc.
    Inventors: Noubar B. AFEYAN, Mary-Jane LOMBARDO MCKENZIE, Kevin Daniel LITCOFSKY, David N. COOK, Matthew R. HENN, Geoffrey VON MALTZAHN
  • Publication number: 20210244774
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are therapeutic compositions containing non-pathogenic, germination-competent bacterial spores, for the prevention, control, and treatment of gastrointestinal diseases, disorders and conditions and for general nutritional health.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Applicant: Seres Therapeutics, Inc,
    Inventors: Gregory MCKENZIE, Mary-Jane LOMBARDO MCKENZIE, David N. COOK, Marin VULIC, Geoffrey VON MALTZAHN, Brian GOODMAN, John Grant AUNINS, Matthew R. HENN, David Arthur BERRY, Jonathan WINKLER
  • Publication number: 20210228627
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides, at least in part, methods and compositions for in vivo fusosome delivery. In some embodiments, the fusosome comprises a combination of elements that promote specificity for target cells, e.g., one or more of a re-targeted fusogen, a positive target cell-specific regulatory element, and a non-target cell-specific regulatory element. In some embodiments, the fusosome comprises one or more modifications that decrease an immune response against the fusosome.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Inventors: Geoffrey A. von Maltzahn, Jacob Rosenblum Rubens, Michael Travis Mee, John Miles Milwid, Neal Francis Gordon, Jagesh Vijaykumar Shah, Kyle Marvin Trudeau, Brigham Jay Hartley, Peter Anthony Jones
  • Patent number: 11064702
    Abstract: This invention relates to methods and materials for providing a benefit to a plant by associating the plant with a complex endophyte comprising a host fungus further comprising a component bacterium, including benefits to a plant derived from a seed or other plant element treated with a complex endophyte. For example, this invention provides purified complex endophytes, purified complex endophyte components such as bacteria or fungi, synthetic combinations comprising said complex endophytes and/or components, and methods of making and using the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Indigo Ag, Inc.
    Inventors: Karen V. Ambrose, Brett A. Boghigian, Slavica Djonovic, Paul Andrew Gray, Gerardo V. Toldedo, Luis Miguel Marquez, Geoffrey von Maltzahn
  • Publication number: 20210204505
    Abstract: This invention relates to methods and compositions for providing a benefit to a plant by associating the plant with a beneficial endophyte of the genus Streptomyces, including benefits to a plant derived from a seed or other plant element treated with said endophyte. For example, this invention provides purified endophytes, synthetic combinations comprising endophytes, and methods of making and using the same. In particular, this invention relates to compositions and methods of improving soybean and maize plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Inventors: Slavica DJONOVIC, Elizabeth Alexa MCKENZIE, Gerardo TOLEDO, Craig SADOWSKI, Geoffrey VON MALTZAHN, Karen V. AMBROSE, Xuecheng ZHANG, David Morris JOHNSTON, Trudi A. GULICK
  • Publication number: 20210198698
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides, at least in part, methods and compositions for in vivo fusosome delivery. In some embodiments, the fusosome comprises a combination of elements that promote specificity for target cells, e.g., one or more of a fusogen, a positive target cell-specific regulatory element, and a non-target cell-specific regulatory element. In some embodiments, the fusosome comprises one or more modifications that decrease an immune response against the fusosome.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventors: Geoffrey A. von Maltzahn, Jacob Rosenblum Rubens, John Miles Milwid, Michael Travis Mee, Neal Francis Gordon, Jagesh Vijaykumar Shah
  • Publication number: 20210187018
    Abstract: This disclosure provides, e.g., cytobiologic compositions and methods of use thereof. The cytobiologics can be used, e.g., to deliver a protein or nucleic acid to a target cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: FLAGSHIP PIONEERING INNOVATIONS V, INC.
    Inventors: Geoffrey A. von Maltzahn, John Miles Milwid, Jacob Rosenblum Rubens, Michael Travis Mee, Nathan Wilson Stebbins, Molly Krisann Gibson, Neal Francis Gordon, Bo Zhang, Kyle Marvin Trudeau, Brigham Jay Hartley, Tamar Rose Putiri, Kiana Mahdaviani, Jagesh Vijaykumar Shah, Michael Connor, Peter Anthony Jones
  • Publication number: 20210169946
    Abstract: Provided are therapeutic compositions containing Ecobioticâ„¢ populations for prevention, treatment and reduction of symptoms associated with a dysbiosis of a mammalian subject such as a human.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Applicant: Seres Therapeutics, Inc,
    Inventors: Matthew R. HENN, Geoffrey von MALTZAHN, Anthony Mario D'ONOFRIO, Kevin Daniel LITCOFSKY, David Arthur BERRY, David N. COOK, Noubar B. AFEYAN, John Grant AUNINS
  • Publication number: 20210169949
    Abstract: Provided are therapeutic compositions containing Ecobioticâ„¢ populations for prevention, treatment and reduction of symptoms associated with a dysbiosis of a mammalian subject such as a human.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Applicant: Seres Therapeutics, Inc,
    Inventors: Matthew R. HENN, Geoffrey von MALTZAHN, Anthony Mario D'ONOFRIO, Kevin Daniel LITCOFSKY, David Arthur BERRY, David N. COOK, Noubar B. AFEYAN, John Grant AUNINS