Patents by Inventor Jeffrey Robert Vieregg

Jeffrey Robert Vieregg 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).

  • Triggered covalent probes for imaging and silencing genetic expression
    Patent number: 8658780
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of cross-linking probes to covalently bind probes to nucleic acid targets. In some embodiments, the probe comprises an initiator region that is able to bind to a first portion of a target nucleic acid, a probe region linked too the initiator region that is able to bind to a second region of the target nucleic acid and that comprises one or more cross-linkers, and a blocking region hybridized to the probe region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: California Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Niles A. Pierce, Jeffrey Robert Vieregg