Patents by Inventor Jacob Charles Carlson

Jacob Charles Carlson 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: 20220195418
    Abstract: The invention provides systems, methods, reagents, apparatuses, vectors, and host cells for the continuous evolution of nucleic acids. For example, a lagoon is provided in which a population of viral vectors comprising a gene of interest replicates in a stream of host cells, wherein the viral vectors lack a gene encoding a protein required for the generation of infectious viral particles, and wherein that gene is expressed in the host cells under the control of a conditional promoter, the activity of which depends on a function of the gene of interest to be evolved. Some aspects of this invention provide evolved products obtained from continuous evolution procedures described herein. Kits containing materials for continuous evolution are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: President and Fellows of Harvard College
    Inventors: David R. Liu, Kevin Michael Esvelt, Jacob Charles Carlson
  • Patent number: 11214792
    Abstract: The invention provides systems, methods, reagents, apparatuses, vectors, and host cells for the continuous evolution of nucleic acids. For example, a lagoon is provided in which a population of viral vectors comprising a gene of interest replicates in a stream of host cells, wherein the viral vectors lack a gene encoding a protein required for the generation of infectious viral particles, and wherein that gene is expressed in the host cells under the control of a conditional promoter, the activity of which depends on a function of the gene of interest to be evolved. Some aspects of this invention provide evolved products obtained from continuous evolution procedures described herein. Kits containing materials for continuous evolution are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: President and Fellows of Harvard College
    Inventors: David R. Liu, Kevin Michael Esvelt, Jacob Charles Carlson
  • Publication number: 20190276816
    Abstract: The invention provides systems, methods, reagents, apparatuses, vectors, and host cells for the continuous evolution of nucleic acids. For example, a lagoon is provided in which a population of viral vectors comprising a gene of interest replicates in a stream of host cells, wherein the viral vectors lack a gene encoding a protein required for the generation of infectious viral particles, and wherein that gene is expressed in the host cells under the control of a conditional promoter, the activity of which depends on a function of the gene of interest to be evolved. Some aspects of this invention provide evolved products obtained from continuous evolution procedures described herein. Kits containing materials for continuous evolution are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Applicant: President and Fellows of Harvard College
    Inventors: David R. Liu, Kevin Michael Esvelt, Jacob Charles Carlson
  • Publication number: 20190256842
    Abstract: Strategies, systems, methods, reagents, and kits for phage-assisted continuous evolution are provided herein. These include strategies, systems, methods, reagents, and kits allowing for stringency modulation to evolve weakly active or inactive biomolecule variants, negative selection of undesired properties, and/or positive selection of desired properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Applicant: President and Fellows of Harvard College
    Inventors: David R. Liu, Jacob Charles Carlson, Ahmed Hussein Badran, Kevin Michael Esvelt
  • Patent number: 10336997
    Abstract: The invention provides systems, methods, reagents, apparatuses, vectors, and host cells for the continuous evolution of nucleic acids. For example, a lagoon is provided in which a population of viral vectors comprising a gene of interest replicates in a stream of host cells, wherein the viral vectors lack a gene encoding a protein required for the generation of infectious viral particles, and wherein that gene is expressed in the host cells under the control of a conditional promoter, the activity of which depends on a function of the gene of interest to be evolved. Some aspects of this invention provide evolved products obtained from continuous evolution procedures described herein. Kits containing materials for continuous evolution are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: President and Fellows of Harvard College
    Inventors: David R. Liu, Kevin Michael Esvelt, Jacob Charles Carlson
  • Patent number: 10179911
    Abstract: Strategies, systems, methods, reagents, and kits for phage-assisted continuous evolution are provided herein. These include strategies, systems, methods, reagents, and kits allowing for stringency modulation to evolve weakly active or inactive biomolecule variants, negative selection of undesired properties, and/or positive selection of desired properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: President and Fellows of Harvard College
    Inventors: David R. Liu, Jacob Charles Carlson, Ahmed Hussein Badran, Kevin Michael Esvelt
  • Publication number: 20170009224
    Abstract: The invention provides systems, methods, reagents, apparatuses, vectors, and host cells for the continuous evolution of nucleic acids. For example, a lagoon is provided in which a population of viral vectors comprising a gene of interest replicates in a stream of host cells, wherein the viral vectors lack a gene encoding a protein required for the generation of infectious viral particles, and wherein that gene is expressed in the host cells under the control of a conditional promoter, the activity of which depends on a function of the gene of interest to be evolved. Some aspects of this invention provide evolved products obtained from continuous evolution procedures described herein. Kits containing materials for continuous evolution are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Applicant: President and Fellows of Harvard
    Inventors: David R. Liu, Kevin Michael Esvelt, Jacob Charles Carlson
  • Publication number: 20160348096
    Abstract: Strategies, systems, methods, reagents, and kits for phage-assisted continuous evolution are provided herein. These include strategies, systems, methods, reagents, and kits allowing for stringency modulation to evolve weakly active or inactive biomolecule variants, negative selection of undesired properties, and/or positive selection of desired properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2015
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Applicant: President and Fellows of Harvard College
    Inventors: David R. Liu, Jacob Charles Carlson, Ahmed Hussein Badran, Kevin Michael Esvelt
  • Patent number: 9394537
    Abstract: The invention provides systems, methods, reagents, apparatuses, vectors, and host cells for the continuous evolution of nucleic acids. For example, a lagoon is provided in which a population of viral vectors comprising a gene of interest replicates in a stream of host cells, wherein the viral vectors lack a gene encoding a protein required for the generation of infectious viral particles, and wherein that gene is expressed in the host cells under the control of a conditional promoter, the activity of which depends on a function of the gene of interest to be evolved. Some aspects of this invention provide evolved products obtained from continuous evolution procedures described herein. Kits containing materials for continuous evolution are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: President and Fellows of Harvard College
    Inventors: David R. Liu, Kevin Michael Esvelt, Jacob Charles Carlson
  • Publication number: 20130345064
    Abstract: The invention provides systems, methods, reagents, apparatuses, vectors, and host cells for the continuous evolution of nucleic acids. For example, a lagoon is provided in which a population of viral vectors comprising a gene of interest replicates in a stream of host cells, wherein the viral vectors lack a gene encoding a protein required for the generation of infectious viral particles, and wherein that gene is expressed in the host cells under the control of a conditional promoter, the activity of which depends on a function of the gene of interest to be evolved. Some aspects of this invention provide evolved products obtained from continuous evolution procedures described herein. Kits containing materials for continuous evolution are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2011
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Applicant: President and Fellows of Harvard College
    Inventors: David R. Liu, Kevin Michael Esvelt, Jacob Charles Carlson