Patents by Inventor Gianni Calogero Ferreri

Gianni Calogero Ferreri 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: 20170247734
    Abstract: An embodiment of a method for generating a population of amplified concatamer products is described that comprises amplifying a template nucleic acid molecule using a first nucleic acid primer immobilized on a bead substrate and a second nucleic acid primer in solution to generate a population of substantially identical copies of the template nucleic acid molecule immobilized on the bead substrate; and amplifying the population of substantially identical copies of the template nucleic acid molecule using a concatamer primer that comprises a first region complementary to an end region of the population of substantially identical copies of the template nucleic acid molecule and a second region to generate a population of immobilized concatamer products of the substantially identical copies of the template nucleic acid molecule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Inventors: Brian Christopher GODWIN, Priya SHANBHAG, Craig Elder MEALMAKER, Gianni Calogero FERRERI, Melinda PALMER, Shally Hsueh-Wen WANG
  • Patent number: 9624519
    Abstract: An embodiment of a method for generating a population of amplified concatamer products is described that comprises amplifying a template nucleic acid molecule using a first nucleic acid primer immobilized on a bead substrate and a second nucleic acid primer in solution to generate a population of substantially identical copies of the template nucleic acid molecule immobilized on the bead substrate; and amplifying the population of substantially identical copies of the template nucleic acid molecule using a concatamer primer that comprises a first region complementary to an end region of the population of substantially identical copies of the template nucleic acid molecule and a second region to generate a population of immobilized concatamer products of the substantially identical copies of the template nucleic acid molecule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: 454 Life Sciences Corporation
    Inventors: Brian Christopher Godwin, Priya Shanbhag, Craig Elder Mealmaker, Gianni Calogero Ferreri, Melinda Palmer, Shally Hsueh-Wen Wang
  • Publication number: 20150056662
    Abstract: An embodiment of a method for generating a population of amplified concatamer products is described that comprises amplifying a template nucleic acid molecule using a first nucleic acid primer immobilized on a bead substrate and a second nucleic acid primer in solution to generate a population of substantially identical copies of the template nucleic acid molecule immobilized on the bead substrate; and amplifying the population of substantially identical copies of the template nucleic acid molecule using a concatamer primer that comprises a first region complementary to an end region of the population of substantially identical copies of the template nucleic acid molecule and a second region to generate a population of immobilized concatamer products of the substantially identical copies of the template nucleic acid molecule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2014
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Inventors: Brian Christopher Godwin, Priya Shanbhag, Craig Elder Mealmaker, Gianni Calogero Ferreri, Melinda Palmer, Shally Hsueh-Wen Wang
  • Publication number: 20140073511
    Abstract: An embodiment of a method for sequencing a species of nucleic acid template using pH inert reference sensors is described that comprises the steps of: introducing a nucleotide species to an array of wells where a plurality of the wells comprise a species of nucleic acid template and a plurality of the wells comprise a plurality of functional groups with a high pH buffering characteristic, and in at least a first well a polymerase species incorporates the nucleotide species into a plurality of strands complementary to the species of nucleic acid template disposed in the first well and results in a release of a plurality of hydrogen ions; detecting a signal in the first well that is responsive to the hydrogen ions and one or more noise sources; detecting a signal in a second well comprising the functional groups with the high pH buffering characteristic that is responsive to the one or more noise sources; and subtracting the second well signal from the first well signal to generate a corrected signal associated
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2013
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Inventors: Chiu Tai Andrew Wong, Gianni Calogero Ferreri, Sagnik Basuray, Arthika Bappal, Suresh Gopalkrishna Shenoy, Xavier Victor Gomes
  • Publication number: 20110003701
    Abstract: An embodiment of an adaptor element for efficient target processing is described that comprises a semi-complementary double stranded nucleic acid adaptor comprising a non-complementary region and a complementary region, where the non-complementary region comprises a first amplification primer site and a second amplification primer site and the complementary region comprises a sequencing primer site and one or more inosine species.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2009
    Publication date: January 6, 2011
    Inventors: Gianni Calogero Ferreri, Jan F. Simons, Michael Todd Ronan, Michael Egholm, Brian C. Godwin, David Roderick Riches, Stephen Kyle Hutchison, Michael S. Braverman, Melinda D. Palmer, Jeffrey Jeddeloh, Jacob Kitzman, Thomas J. Albert
  • Publication number: 20090233291
    Abstract: An embodiment of a method for obtaining a DNA construct comprising two end regions of a target nucleic acid in an in vitro reaction is described that comprises the steps of: fragmenting a large nucleic acid molecule to produce a target nucleic acid molecule; ligating a recombination adaptor element to each end of the target nucleic acid molecule to produce an adapted target nucleic acid molecule; exposing the adapted target nucleic acid to a site specific recombinase to produce a circular nucleic acid product and a linear nucleic acid product from the adapted target nucleic acid, wherein the circular nucleic acid product comprises the target nucleic acid molecule; and fragmenting the circular nucleic acid product to produce a template nucleic acid molecule comprising a sequence region from each end of the target nucleic acid molecule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2009
    Publication date: September 17, 2009
    Inventors: Zhoutao Chen, Brian Christopher Godwin, Gianni Calogero Ferreri, David Roderick Riches