Patents by Inventor John F. Beausang

John F. Beausang 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: 20230170048
    Abstract: Technical solutions for classifying patients with respect to multiple cancer classes are provided. The classification can be done using cell-free whole genome sequencing information from subjects. A reference set of subjects is used to train classifiers to recognize genomic markers that distinguish such cancer classes. The classifier training includes dividing the reference genome into a set of non-overlapping bins, applying a dimensionality reduction method to obtain a feature set, and using the feature set to train classifiers. For subjects with unknown cancer class, the trained classifiers provide probabilities or likelihoods that the subject has a respective cancer class for each cancer in a set of cancer classes. The present disclosure thus describes methods to improve the screening and detection of cancer class from among several cancer classes. This serves to facilitate early and appropriate treatment for subjects afflicted with cancer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2023
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Applicant: Grail, LLC
    Inventors: M. Cyrus MAHER, Anton VALOUEV, Darya FILIPPOVA, Virgil NICULA, Karthik JAGADEESH, Oliver Claude VENN, Samuel S. GROSS, John F. BEAUSANG, Robert Abe Paine CALEF
  • Patent number: 11581062
    Abstract: Technical solutions for classifying patients with respect to multiple cancer classes are provided. The classification can be done using cell-free whole genome sequencing information from subjects. A reference set of subjects is used to train classifiers to recognize genomic markers that distinguish such cancer classes. The classifier training includes dividing the reference genome into a set of non-overlapping bins, applying a dimensionality reduction method to obtain a feature set, and using the feature set to train classifiers. For subjects with unknown cancer class, the trained classifiers provide probabilities or likelihoods that the subject has a respective cancer class for each cancer in a set of cancer classes. The present disclosure thus describes methods to improve the screening and detection of cancer class from among several cancer classes. This serves to facilitate early and appropriate treatment for subjects afflicted with cancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: GRAIL, LLC
    Inventors: M. Cyrus Maher, Anton Valouev, Darya Filippova, Virgil Nicula, Karthik Jagadeesh, Oliver Claude Venn, Samuel S. Gross, John F. Beausang, Robert Abe Paine Calef
  • Publication number: 20220119890
    Abstract: The present description provides a cancer assay panel for targeted detection of cancer-specific methylation patterns. Further provided herein includes methods of designing, making, and using the cancer assay panel to detect cancer and particular types of cancer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Oliver Claude Venn, Alexander P. Fields, Samuel S. Gross, Qinwen Liu, Jan Schellenberger, Joerg Bredno, John F. Beausang, Seyedmehdi Shojaee, Onur Sakarya, M. Cyrus Maher, Arash Jamshidi
  • Publication number: 20220098672
    Abstract: The present description provides a cancer assay panel for targeted detection of cancer-specific methylation patterns. Further provided herein includes methods of designing, making, and using the cancer assay panel for detection of cancer tissue of origin (e.g., types of cancer).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Oliver Claude Venn, Alexander P. Fields, Samuel S. Gross, Qinwen Liu, Jan Schellenberger, Joerg Bredno, John F. Beausang, Seyedmehdi Shojaee, Onur Sakarya, M. Cyrus Maher, Arash Jamshidi
  • Publication number: 20220090207
    Abstract: The present description provides a cancer assay panel for targeted detection of cancer-specific methylation patterns. Further provided herein includes methods of designing, making, and using the cancer assay panel to detect cancer and particular types of cancer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Inventors: Oliver Claude Venn, Alexander P. Fields, Samuel S. Gross, Qinwen Liu, Jan Schellenberger, Joerg Bredno, John F. Beausang, Seyedmehdi Shojaee, Onur Sakarya, M. Cyrus Maher, Arash Jamshidi
  • Publication number: 20220064737
    Abstract: The present description provides a hematological disorder (HD) assay panel for targeted detection of methylation patterns or variants specific to various hematological disorders, such as clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential (CHIP) and blood cancers, such as leukemia, lymphoid neoplasms (e.g. lymphoma), multiple myeloma, and myeloid neoplasm. Further provided herein includes methods of designing, making, and using the HD assay panel for detection of various hematological disorders.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventors: Samuel S. Gross, Oliver Claude Venn, Alexander P. Fields, Qinwen Liu, Jan Schellenberger, Joerg Bredno, John F. Beausang, Seyedmehdi Shojaee, Arash Jamshidi
  • Publication number: 20210395841
    Abstract: Systems and methods described herein include detecting a presence or absence of HPV in a biological sample having cell-free nucleic acids from a subject and potentially cell-free nucleic acids from an HPV strain. Based on a detection of HPV viral nucleic acids in the biological sample, an HPV-based multiclass classifier that predicts a score for each HPV-associated cancer type is applied. The HPV-based multiclass classifier is trained on a training set of HPV-positive cancer samples. An HPV-associated cancer associated with the biological sample is determined based on the scores predicted by the HPV multiclass classifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Applicant: GRAIL, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Abe Paine Calef, M. Cyrus Maher, John F. Beausang, Joerg Bredno, Oliver Claude Venn, Alexander P. Fields, Arash Jamshidi
  • Publication number: 20200365229
    Abstract: In various embodiments, an analytics system uses models to determine features and classification of disease states. A disease state can indicate presence or absence of cancer, a cancer type, or a cancer tissue of origin. The models can include a binary classifier and a tissue of origin classifier. The analytics system can process sequence reads from test biological samples to generate data for training the classifiers. The analytics system can also use combinations of machine learning techniques to train the models, which can include a multilayer perceptron. In some embodiments, the analytics system uses methylation information to train the models to determine predictions regarding disease state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Inventors: Alexander P. Fields, John F. Beausang, Oliver Claude Venn, Arash Jamshidi, M. Cyrus Maher, Qinwen Liu, Jan Schellenberger, Joshua Newman, Robert Calef, Samuel S. Gross
  • Publication number: 20200185059
    Abstract: Technical solutions for classifying patients with respect to multiple cancer classes are provided. The classification can be done using cell-free whole genome sequencing information from subjects. A reference set of subjects is used to train classifiers to recognize genomic markers that distinguish such cancer classes. The classifier training includes dividing the reference genome into a set of non-overlapping bins, applying a dimensionality reduction method to obtain a feature set, and using the feature set to train classifiers. For subjects with unknown cancer class, the trained classifiers provide probabilities or likelihoods that the subject has a respective cancer class for each cancer in a set of cancer classes. The present disclosure thus describes methods to improve the screening and detection of cancer class from among several cancer classes. This serves to facilitate early and appropriate treatment for subjects afflicted with cancer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: M. Cyrus Maher, Anton Valouev, Darya Filippova, Virgil Nicula, Karthik Jagadeesh, Oliver Claude Venn, Samuel S. Gross, John F. Beausang, Robert Abe Paine Calef