Patents by Inventor Gerald A. Higgins

Gerald A. Higgins 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: 20240371489
    Abstract: Methods for identifying patients diagnosed with treatment resistant or refractory depression, pain or other clinical indications who are eligible to receive N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antagonist, glycine receptor beta (GLRB) modulator, or ?-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid receptor (AMPAR)-based therapies to include determining the appropriate medication, an optimal dose for each patient, and determining which patients are not eligible to receive the therapy. The pharmacogenomic clinical decision support assays include targeted single nucleotide polymorphisms and clinical values or a combination of targeted single nucleotide polymorphisms, targeted ketamine-specific expansion and contraction of topologically associated domains, and clinical values. The methods described herein allow for a more effective determination of which patients will experience drug efficacy and which patients will experience adverse drug events.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2024
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Inventors: Brian D. Athey, Gerald A. Higgins, Alex Ade, Alexandr Kalinin, Narathip Reamaroon, James S. Burns
  • Publication number: 20240296927
    Abstract: Methods comprising an integrated, multiscale artificial intelligence-based system that reconstructs drug-specific pharmacogenomic networks and their constituent functional sub-networks are described. The system uses features of the functional topology of the three-dimensional architecture of drug-modulated spatial contacts in chromatin space. Discovery of a drug pharmacogenomic network is made through the selection of candidate SNPs by imputation, determination of the predicted causality of the SNPs using machine learning and deep learning, use of the causal SNPs to probe the spatial genome as determined by chromosome conformation capture analysis, combining targeted genes controlled by the same cell and tissue-specific enhancers, and reconstruction of the pharmacogenomic network using diverse data sources and metrics based on the results of genome-wide association studies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2024
    Publication date: September 5, 2024
    Inventors: Brian D. Athey, Gerald A. Higgins, Alex Ade, Alexandr Kalinin, Narathip Reamaroon, James S. Burns
  • Publication number: 20240266018
    Abstract: Methods comprising an integrated, multiscale artificial intelligence-based system that reconstructs drug-specific pharmacogenomic networks and their constituent functional sub-networks are described. The system uses features of the functional topology of the three-dimensional architecture of drug-modulated spatial contacts in chromatin space. Discovery of a drug pharmacogenomic network is made through the selection of candidate SNPs by imputation, determination of the predicted causality of the SNPs using machine learning and deep learning, use of the causal SNPs to probe the spatial genome as determined by chromosome conformation capture analysis, combining targeted genes controlled by the same cell and tissue-specific enhancers, and reconstruction of the pharmacogenomic network using diverse data sources and metrics based on the results of genome-wide association studies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2024
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Inventors: Brian D. Athey, Gerald A. Higgins, Alex Ade, Alexandr Kalinin, Narathip Reamaroon, James S. Burns
  • Patent number: 11984208
    Abstract: Methods comprising an integrated, multiscale artificial intelligence-based system that reconstructs drug-specific pharmacogenomic networks and their constituent functional sub-networks are described. The system uses features of the functional topology of the three-dimensional architecture of drug-modulated spatial contacts in chromatin space. Discovery of a drug pharmacogenomic network is made through the selection of candidate SNPs by imputation, determination of the predicted causality of the SNPs using machine learning and deep learning, use of the causal SNPs to probe the spatial genome as determined by chromosome conformation capture analysis, combining targeted genes controlled by the same cell and tissue-specific enhancers, and reconstruction of the pharmacogenomic network using diverse data sources and metrics based on the results of genome-wide association studies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
    Inventors: Brian D. Athey, Gerald A. Higgins, Alex Ade, Alexandr Kalinin, Narathip Reamaroon, James S. Burns
  • Publication number: 20220020466
    Abstract: Methods comprising an integrated, multiscale artificial intelligence-based system that reconstructs drug-specific pharmacogenomic networks and their constituent functional sub-networks are described. The system uses features of the functional topology of the three-dimensional architecture of drug-modulated spatial contacts in chromatin space. Discovery of a drug pharmacogenomic network is made through the selection of candidate SNPs by imputation, determination of the predicted causality of the SNPs using machine learning and deep learning, use of the causal SNPs to probe the spatial genome as determined by chromosome conformation capture analysis, combining targeted genes controlled by the same cell and tissue-specific enhancers, and reconstruction of the pharmacogenomic network using diverse data sources and metrics based on the results of genome-wide association studies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Inventors: Brian D. Athey, Gerald A. Higgins, Alex Ade, Alexandr Kalinin, Narathip Reamaroon, James S. Burns
  • Patent number: 10867702
    Abstract: For patients who exhibit or may exhibit primary or comorbid disease, pharmacological phenotypes may be predicted through the collection of panomic data over a period of time. A machine learning engine may generate a statistical model based on training data from training patients to predict pharmacological phenotypes, including drug response and dosing, drug adverse events, disease and comorbid disease risk, drug-gene, drug-drug, and polypharmacy interactions. Then the model may be applied to data for new patients to predict their pharmacological phenotypes, and enable decision making in clinical and research contexts, including drug selection and dosage, changes in drug regimens, polypharmacy optimization, monitoring, etc., to benefit from additional predictive power, resulting in adverse event and substance abuse avoidance, improved drug response, better patient outcomes, lower treatment costs, public health benefits, and increases in the effectiveness of research in pharmacology and other biomedical fields.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
    Inventors: Brian D. Athey, Ari Allyn-Feuer, Gerald A. Higgins, James S. Burns, Alexandr Kalinin, Brian Pauls, Alex Ade, Narathip Reamaroon
  • Publication number: 20200294623
    Abstract: Methods comprising an integrated, multiscale artificial intelligence-based system that reconstructs drug-specific pharmacogenomic networks and their constituent functional sub-networks are described. The system uses features of the functional topology of the three-dimensional architecture of drug-modulated spatial contacts in chromatin space. Discovery of a drug pharmacogenomic network is made through the selection of candidate SNPs by imputation, determination of the predicted causality of the SNPs using machine learning and deep learning, use of the causal SNPs to probe the spatial genome as determined by chromosome conformation capture analysis, combining targeted genes controlled by the same cell and tissue-specific enhancers, and reconstruction of the pharmacogenomic network using diverse data sources and metrics based on the results of genome-wide association studies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: Brian D. Athey, Gerald A. Higgins, Alex Ade, Alexandr Kalinin, Narathip Reamaroon, James S. Burns
  • Publication number: 20200234810
    Abstract: Methods for identifying patients diagnosed with treatment resistant or refractory depression, pain or other clinical indications who are eligible to receive N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antagonist, glycine receptor beta (GLRB) modulator, or ?-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid receptor (AMPAR)-based therapies to include determining the appropriate medication, an optimal dose for each patient, and determining which patients are not eligible to receive the therapy. The pharmacogenomic clinical decision support assays include targeted single nucleotide polymorphisms and clinical values or a combination of targeted single nucleotide polymorphisms, targeted ketamine-specific expansion and contraction of topologically associated domains, and clinical values. The methods described herein allow for a more effective determination of which patients will experience drug efficacy and which patients will experience adverse drug events.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventors: Brian D. Athey, Alex Ade, Gerald A. Higgins, Alexandr Kalinin, Narathip Reamaroon, James S. Burns
  • Publication number: 20200135337
    Abstract: For patients who exhibit or may exhibit primary or comorbid disease, pharmacological phenotypes may be predicted through the collection of panomic data over a period of time. A machine learning engine may generate a statistical model based on training data from training patients to predict pharmacological phenotypes, including drug response and dosing, drug adverse events, disease and comorbid disease risk, drug-gene, drug-drug, and polypharmacy interactions. Then the model may be applied to data for new patients to predict their pharmacological phenotypes, and enable decision making in clinical and research contexts, including drug selection and dosage, changes in drug regimens, polypharmacy optimization, monitoring, etc., to benefit from additional predictive power, resulting in adverse event and substance abuse avoidance, improved drug response, better patient outcomes, lower treatment costs, public health benefits, and increases in the effectiveness of research in pharmacology and other biomedical fields.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Brian D. Athey, Ari Allyn-Feuer, Gerald A. Higgins, James S. Burns, Alexandr Kalinin, Brian Pauls, Alex Ade, Narathip Reamaroon
  • Patent number: 10553318
    Abstract: For patients who exhibit or may exhibit primary or comorbid disease, pharmacological phenotypes may be predicted through the collection of panomic data over a period of time. A machine learning engine may generate a statistical model based on training data from training patients to predict pharmacological phenotypes, including drug response and dosing, drug adverse events, disease and comorbid disease risk, drug-gene, drug-drug, and polypharmacy interactions. Then the model may be applied to data for new patients to predict their pharmacological phenotypes, and enable decision making in clinical and research contexts, including drug selection and dosage, changes in drug regimens, polypharmacy optimization, monitoring, etc., to benefit from additional predictive power, resulting in adverse event and substance abuse avoidance, improved drug response, better patient outcomes, lower treatment costs, public health benefits, and increases in the effectiveness of research in pharmacology and other biomedical fields.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
    Inventors: Brian D. Athey, Ari Allyn-Feuer, Gerald A. Higgins, James S. Burns, Alexandr Kalinin, Brian Pauls, Alex Ade, Narathip Reamaroon
  • Publication number: 20190295684
    Abstract: To analyze spatial organization of chromatin a computing device may compile genomic element contacts or reads into variable size bins using a binary search tree. The bins may be selected to each represent a different cutsite increment or functional element within a genome, such as a gene, TAD, chromatin state segment, loop domain, chromatin domain, etc. Two sets of bins are selected to generate a squared genome matrix of bin pairs, where each set represent an axis of the matrix. Then a normalization method is applied to the interaction frequencies for the bin pairs having variable size and/or shape to generate normalized interaction frequencies for each bin pair. The normalized interaction frequencies may be used to identify bin pairs having enriched and depleted contacts for a variety of analyses, including the detection of target genes of genomic variants, as well as genome wide analysis of contacts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventors: Ari Allyn-Feuer, Brian D. Athey, Gerald A. Higgins, Alex Ade
  • Publication number: 20190172584
    Abstract: For patients who exhibit or may exhibit primary or comorbid disease, pharmacological phenotypes may be predicted through the collection of panomic data over a period of time. A machine learning engine may generate a statistical model based on training data from training patients to predict pharmacological phenotypes, including drug response and dosing, drug adverse events, disease and comorbid disease risk, drug-gene, drug-drug, and polypharmacy interactions. Then the model may be applied to data for new patients to predict their pharmacological phenotypes, and enable decision making in clinical and research contexts, including drug selection and dosage, changes in drug regimens, polypharmacy optimization, monitoring, etc., to benefit from additional predictive power, resulting in adverse event and substance abuse avoidance, improved drug response, better patient outcomes, lower treatment costs, public health benefits, and increases in the effectiveness of research in pharmacology and other biomedical fields.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Inventors: Brian D. Athey, Ari Allyn-Feuer, Gerald A. Higgins, James S. Burns, Alexandr Kalinin, Brian Pauls, Alex Ade, Narathip Reamaroon
  • Patent number: 10249389
    Abstract: For patients who exhibit or may exhibit primary or comorbid disease, pharmacological phenotypes may be predicted through the collection of panomic, physiomic, environmental, sociomic, demographic, and outcome phenotype data over a period of time. A machine learning engine may generate a statistical model based on training data from training patients to predict pharmacological phenotypes, including drug response and dosing, drug adverse events, disease and comorbid disease risk, drug-gene, drug-drug, and polypharmacy interactions. Then the model may be applied to data for new patients to predict their pharmacological phenotypes, and enable decision making in clinical and research contexts, including drug selection and dosage, changes in drug regimens, polypharmacy optimization, monitoring, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
    Inventors: Brian D. Athey, Ari Allyn-Feuer, Gerald A. Higgins, James S. Burns, Alexandr Kalinin, Brian Pauls, Alex Ade, Narathip Reamaroon
  • Publication number: 20180330824
    Abstract: For patients who exhibit or may exhibit primary or comorbid disease, pharmacological phenotypes may be predicted through the collection of panomic, physiomic, environmental, sociomic, demographic, and outcome phenotype data over a period of time. A machine learning engine may generate a statistical model based on training data from training patients to predict pharmacological phenotypes, including drug response and dosing, drug adverse events, disease and comorbid disease risk, drug-gene, drug-drug, and polypharmacy interactions. Then the model may be applied to data for new patients to predict their pharmacological phenotypes, and enable decision making in clinical and research contexts, including drug selection and dosage, changes in drug regimens, polypharmacy optimization, monitoring, etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2018
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Inventors: Brian D. Athey, Ari Allyn-Feuer, Gerald A. Higgins, James S. Burns, Alexandr Kalinin, Brian Pauls, Alex Ade, Narathip Reamaroon
  • Publication number: 20140222349
    Abstract: The invention provides a system and methods for the determination of the pharmacogenomic phenotype of any individual or group of individuals, ideally classified to a discrete, specific and defined pharmacogenomic population(s) using machine learning and population structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2014
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Inventors: Gerald A. Higgins, C. Anthony Altar, Ned Way
  • Publication number: 20140046696
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods and systems or apparatuses, to analyze multiple molecular and clinical variables from an individual diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder, such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), in order to optimize medication selection for therapeutic response. Molecular co-variables include polymorphisms in genes including those involved in central control and mediation of the hypothalamic-pituitary axis (HPA) stress response, the density of methylation in regulatory regions of said polymorphic genes, polymorphisms in genes that encode cytochrome P450 enzymes responsible for drug metabolism, and drug-drug and drug-gene interactions. Clinical co-variables include but are not limited to the sex, age and ethnicity of that individual, medication history, family history, diagnostic codes, Pittsburgh insomnia rating score, and Charlson index score.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2013
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Inventors: Gerald A. Higgins, C. Anthony Altar
  • Publication number: 20140038836
    Abstract: The present invention provides pharmacogene polymorphisms and their use in predicting therapeutic effectiveness. The present invention also provides methods comprising targeted analysis of selected pharmacogenes in thousands of compiled whole human genome sequences for identifying polymorphic sequences associated with drug response are described. The methods also provide confirmation and validation of these pharmacogene polymorphisms, based on concordance between different sequencing technologies, and statistical error-checking. Imputation of the deleterious consequences of novel variants is predicted by bioinformatics analysis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2013
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Inventors: Gerald A. Higgins, C. Anthony Altar
  • Patent number: 7731500
    Abstract: The illustrative embodiment is a simulation system for practicing vascular-access procedures without using human subjects. The simulator comprises a data-processing system and a haptics device. The haptics device provides the physical interface at which an end effector, which is representative of a medical instrument (e.g., a needle, catheter, etc.), is manipulated with respect to a haptics-device base to simulate instrument insertion. The data-processing system, by exchanging signals with the haptics device, provides a three-dimensional simulation that includes the resistive forces that a medical practitioner would experience if the simulated procedure were an actual procedure that was being performed on a real anatomy (e.g., human arm, etc.). The simulator displays the ongoing simulation and assesses the performance of its user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignee: Laerdal Medical Corporation
    Inventors: David Feygin, Gerald Higgins, Chih-Hao Ho, Marjorie Moreau, Ned Way
  • Publication number: 20060008786
    Abstract: The illustrative embodiment is a simulation system for practicing vascular-access procedures without using human subjects. The simulator comprises a data-processing system and a haptics device. The haptics device provides the physical interface at which an end effector, which is representative of a medical instrument (e.g., a needle, catheter, etc.), is manipulated with respect to a haptics-device base to simulate instrument insertion. The data-processing system, by exchanging signals with the haptics device, provides a three-dimensional simulation that includes the resistive forces that a medical practitioner would experience if the simulated procedure were an actual procedure that was being performed on a real anatomy (e.g., human arm, etc.). The simulator displays the ongoing simulation and assesses the performance of its user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2004
    Publication date: January 12, 2006
    Inventors: David Feygin, Gerald Higgins, Chih-Hao Ho, Marjorie Moreau, Ned Way