Patents by Inventor Jeffrey Wegener

Jeffrey Wegener 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).

  • Patent number: 10745750
    Abstract: Nucleic acid compositions, methods of making and using such compositions that comprise modular functional groups that can be configured to provide desired functionality to different nucleotide types through a swappable and preferably non-covalent linkage component. Such compositions are useful in a variety of applications including nucleic acid analyses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonas Korlach, Jeffrey Wegener
  • Patent number: 10655172
    Abstract: Methods of producing substrates having selected active chemical regions by employing elements of the substrates in assisting the localization of active chemical groups in desired regions of the substrate. The methods may include optical, chemical and/or mechanical processes for the deposition, removal, activation and/or deactivation of chemical groups in selected regions of the substrate to provide selective active regions of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc.
    Inventors: David R. Rank, Jeffrey Wegener, Jonas Korlach, Daniel Roitman, Yue Xu, John Lyle, Stephen Turner, Paul Peluso, Geoff Otto, Ronald L. Cicero
  • Publication number: 20190185926
    Abstract: Nucleic acid compositions, methods of making and using such compositions that comprise modular functional groups that can be configured to provide desired functionality to different nucleotide types through a swappable and preferably non-covalent linkage component. Such compositions are useful in a variety of applications including nucleic acid analyses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Inventors: Jonas Korlach, Jeffrey Wegener
  • Patent number: 10294523
    Abstract: Methods, compositions, and systems are provided for characterization of modified nucleic acids. In certain preferred embodiments, single molecule sequencing methods are provided for identification of modified nucleotides within nucleic acid sequences. Modifications detectable by the methods provided herein include chemically modified bases, enzymatically modified bases, abasic sites, non-natural bases, secondary structures, and agents bound to a template nucleic acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Flusberg, Jonas Korlach, Jeffrey Wegener, Tyson A. Clark, Igor Drasko Vilfan, Andrey Kislyuk, Stephen Turner, Jon Sorenson, Kevin Travers, Cheryl Heiner, Austin B. Tomaney, Patrick Marks, Jessica Lee, Lei Jia, Dale Webster, John Lyle, Jeremiah Hanes
  • Patent number: 10161002
    Abstract: Nucleic acid compositions, methods of making and using such compositions that comprise modular functional groups that can be configured to provide desired functionality to different nucleotide types through a swappable and preferably non-covalent linkage component. Such compositions are useful in a variety of applications including nucleic acid analyses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonas Korlach, Jeffrey Wegener
  • Publication number: 20180163267
    Abstract: Nucleic acid compositions, methods of making and using such compositions that comprise modular functional groups that can be configured to provide desired functionality to different nucleotide types through a swappable and preferably non-covalent linkage component. Such compositions are useful in a variety of applications including nucleic acid analyses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Inventors: Jonas Korlach, Jeffrey Wegener
  • Patent number: 9879319
    Abstract: Nucleic acid compositions, methods of making and using such compositions that comprise modular functional groups that can be configured to provide desired functionality to different nucleotide types through a swappable and preferably non-covalent linkage component. Such compositions are useful in a variety of applications including nucleic acid analyses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonas Korlach, Jeffrey Wegener
  • Patent number: 9777320
    Abstract: In various embodiments, the present invention provides fluorescent dyes that are linked to another species through an adaptor moiety. In an exemplary embodiment, the dye is linked to a polyphosphate nucleic acid through an adaptor. An adaptor can be a component of a linker. These conjugates find use in single molecule DNA sequencing and other applications. In various embodiments, the dye moiety is a cyanine dye. Cyanine dyes that are highly charged, such as those including multiple sulfonate, alkylsulfonate, carboxylate and/or alkylcarboxylate moieties are examples of cyanine dyes of use in the compounds of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen Yue, Gene Shen, Louis Brogley, Lubomir Sebo, Jeffrey Wegener
  • Patent number: 9746476
    Abstract: The present invention is generally directed to compositions, methods, and systems for performing single-molecule, real-time analysis of a variety of different biological reactions, and for determining various characteristics of the different biological reactions. The ability to analyze such reactions provides an opportunity to study those reactions as well as to potentially identify factors and/or approaches for impacting such reactions, e.g., to stimulate, enhance, or inhibit such reactions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonas Korlach, Stephen Turner, Benjamin Flusberg, Mark Chaisson, Eric Schadt, Jeffrey Wegener
  • Publication number: 20170159116
    Abstract: Nucleic acid compositions, methods of making and using such compositions that comprise modular functional groups that can be configured to provide desired functionality to different nucleotide types through a swappable and preferably non-covalent linkage component. Such compositions are useful in a variety of applications including nucleic acid analyses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Inventors: Jonas Korlach, Jeffrey Wegener
  • Patent number: 9551031
    Abstract: Nucleic acid compositions, methods of making and using such compositions that comprise modular functional groups that can be configured to provide desired functionality to different nucleotide types through a swappable and preferably non-covalent linkage component. Such compositions are useful in a variety of applications including nucleic acid analyses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonas Korlach, Jeffrey Wegener
  • Patent number: 9464107
    Abstract: Labeled reactant compositions, and particularly labeled nucleic acid reaction compositions that include structural components including double-stranded nucleic acids. In some embodiments, the structural components maintain potentially damaging labeling components sufficiently distal from the reactant portion of the molecule such that damaging effects of the label group on other reaction components, such as enzymes, are reduced, minimized and/or eliminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Wegener, Jonas Korlach
  • Publication number: 20160244824
    Abstract: Nucleic acid compositions, methods of making and using such compositions that comprise modular functional groups that can be configured to provide desired functionality to different nucleotide types through a swappable and preferably non-covalent linkage component. Such compositions are useful in a variety of applications including nucleic acid analyses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2014
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Inventors: Jonas Korlach, Jeffrey Wegener
  • Publication number: 20160153038
    Abstract: Methods, compositions, and systems are provided for characterization of modified nucleic acids. In certain preferred embodiments, single molecule sequencing methods are provided for identification of modified nucleotides within nucleic acid sequences. Modifications detectable by the methods provided herein include chemically modified bases, enzymatically modified bases, abasic sites, non-natural bases, secondary structures, and agents bound to a template nucleic acid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2015
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Inventors: Benjamin Flusberg, Jonas Korlach, Jeffrey Wegener, Tyson A. Clark, Igor Drasko Vilfan, Andrey Kislyuk, Stephen Turner, Jon Sorenson, Kevin Travers, Cheryl Heiner, Austin B. Tomaney, Patrick Marks, Jessica Lee, Lei Jia, Dale Webster, John Lyle, Jeremiah Hanes
  • Publication number: 20150362503
    Abstract: The present invention is generally directed to compositions, methods, and systems for performing single-molecule, real-time analysis of a variety of different biological reactions, and for determining various characteristics of the different biological reactions. The ability to analyze such reactions provides an opportunity to study those reactions as well as to potentially identify factors and/or approaches for impacting such reactions, e.g., to stimulate, enhance, or inhibit such reactions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2015
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Inventors: Jonas Korlach, Stephen Turner, Benjamin Flusberg, Mark Chaisson, Eric Schadt, Jeffrey Wegener
  • Patent number: 9175338
    Abstract: Methods, compositions, and systems are provided for characterization of modified nucleic acids. In certain preferred embodiments, single molecule sequencing methods are provided for identification of modified nucleotides within nucleic acid sequences. Modifications detectable by the methods provided herein include chemically modified bases, enzymatically modified bases, abasic sites, non-natural bases, secondary structures, and agents bound to a template nucleic acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Flusberg, Jonas Korlach, Jeffrey Wegener, Tyson A. Clark, Igor Vilfan, Andrey Kislyuk, Stephen Turner, Jon Sorenson, Kevin Travers, Cheryl Heiner, Austin B. Tomaney, Patrick Marks, Jessica Lee, Lei Jia, Dale Webster, John Lyle, Jeremiah Hanes, Joseph Puglisi
  • Patent number: 9063156
    Abstract: The present invention is generally directed to compositions, methods, and systems for performing single-molecule, real-time analysis of a variety of different biological reactions, and for determining various characteristics of the different biological reactions. The ability to analyze such reactions provides an opportunity to study those reactions as well as to potentially identify factors and/or approaches for impacting such reactions, e.g., to stimulate, enhance, or inhibit such reactions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonas Korlach, Stephen Turner, Benjamin Flusberg, Mark Chaisson, Eric Schadt, Jeffrey Wegener
  • Patent number: 9017937
    Abstract: The invention relates to devices and methods for nanopore sequencing. The invention includes arrays of nanopores having incorporated electronic circuits, for example, in CMOS. The invention includes devices having sample and reference pores connecting sample, measurement and reference chambers, wherein potential measurements in each chamber is used to provide an accurate determination of current through a sample nanopore, improving nanopore sequencing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen Turner, Nathaniel McCaffrey, Jeffrey Wegener, Adrian Fehr
  • Patent number: 8993234
    Abstract: The invention relates to devices and methods for nanopore sequencing. The invention includes compositions and methods of nucleic acid sequencing using a single polymerase enzyme complex comprising a polymerase enzyme and a template nucleic acid attached proximal to a nanopore, and nucleotide analogs in solution comprising charge blockade label that are attached to the polyphosphate portion of the nucleotide analog such that the charge blockade labels are cleaved when the nucleotide analog is incorporated into a growing nucleic acid and the charge blockade label is detected by the nanopore to determine the presence and identity of the incorporated nucleotide and thereby determine the sequence of a template nucleic acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen Turner, Jeffrey Wegener
  • Patent number: RE47067
    Abstract: The invention relates to devices and methods for nanopore sequencing. The invention includes arrays of nanopores having incorporated electronic circuits, for example, in CMOS. The invention includes devices having sample and reference pores connecting sample, measurement and reference chambers, wherein potential measurements in each chamber is used to provide an accurate determination of current through a sample nanopore, improving nanopore sequencing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen Turner, Nathaniel McCaffrey, Jeffrey Wegener, Adrian Fehr