Patents by Inventor James C. Schnable

James C. Schnable 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: 20250372209
    Abstract: Systems and methods are presented for constructing, training, and utilizing a large contextual gene sequence model that can be provided with variable-length DNA sequence data from larger genomic intervals surrounding annotated genes to predict relative expression across a set of transcriptionally diverse tissues. Additionally, per-nucleotide saliency scores can be extracted from the large contextual gene sequence model, indicating which regions of the DNA sequence surrounding a target gene are associated with regulation of expression of the target gene in various tissue types of an organism. The model described herein surprisingly tolerated averaging across a given embedding of a DNA sequence, and the use of averaging across each embedding allowed the development of a transformer-based model capable of producing a constant set of outputs, indicating the relative expression across a fixed set of tissues, from variable lengths of DNA sequence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2025
    Publication date: December 4, 2025
    Inventors: Michael C. Tross, James C. Schnable
  • Patent number: 12336472
    Abstract: Several Proso cultivars are disclosed having improved yields. The technology relates to the seeds, plants, and plant parts of Proso cultivars; and further provides methods for producing progeny of Proso cultivars. The technology also relates to Proso cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from Proso cultivars; and to methods for producing other Proso cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from Proso cultivars, and to the Proso plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The technology further relates to hybrid Proso seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing improved-yield Proso cultivars with another Proso cultivar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: Dryland Genetics, Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick S. Schnable, James C. Schnable, Santosh Rajput
  • Publication number: 20240215510
    Abstract: Several Proso cultivars are disclosed having improved yields. The technology relates to the seeds, plants, and plant parts of Proso cultivars; and further provides methods for producing progeny of Proso cultivars. The technology also relates to Proso cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from Proso cultivars; and to methods for producing other Proso cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from Proso cultivars, and to the Proso plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The technology further relates to hybrid Proso seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing improved-yield Proso cultivars with another Proso cultivar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2024
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventors: Patrick S. Schnable, James C. Schnable, Santosh Rajput
  • Patent number: 12016285
    Abstract: Several Proso cultivars are disclosed having improved yields. The technology relates to the seeds, plants, and plant parts of Proso cultivars; and further provides methods for producing progeny of Proso cultivars. The technology also relates to Proso cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from Proso cultivars; and to methods for producing other Proso cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from Proso cultivars, and to the Proso plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The technology further relates to hybrid Proso seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing improved-yield Proso cultivars with another Proso cultivar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Dryland Genetics, Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick S. Schnable, James C. Schnable, Santosh Rajput
  • Publication number: 20220174903
    Abstract: Several Proso cultivars are disclosed having improved yields. The technology relates to the seeds, plants, and plant parts of Proso cultivars; and further provides methods for producing progeny of Proso cultivars. The technology also relates to Proso cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from Proso cultivars; and to methods for producing other Proso cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from Proso cultivars, and to the Proso plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The technology further relates to hybrid Proso seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing improved-yield Proso cultivars with another Proso cultivar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventors: Patrick S. Schnable, James C. Schnable, Santosh Rajput