Patents by Inventor Joseph M. Jacobson
Joseph M. Jacobson 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).
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Publication number: 20200384727Abstract: A 3D object according to the invention comprises substrate layers infiltrated by a hardened material. The 3D object is fabricated by a method comprising the following steps: Position powder on all or part of a substrate layer. Repeat this step for the remaining substrate layers. Stack the substrate layers. Transform the powder into a substance that flows and subsequently hardens into the hardened material. The hardened material solidifies in a spatial pattern that infiltrates positive regions in the substrate layers and does not infiltrate negative regions in the substrate layers. In a preferred embodiment, the substrate is carbon fiber and excess substrate is removed by abrasion.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2020Publication date: December 10, 2020Applicant: Impossible Objects LLCInventors: Robert Swartz, Buckley Crist, Eugene Gore, Joseph M. Jacobson
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Publication number: 20200332271Abstract: Engineered Streptococcus canis Cas9 (ScCas9) variants include an ScCas9 protein with its PID being the PID amino acid composition of Streptococcus pyogenes Cas9 (SpCas9)-NG, an ScCas9 protein having a threonine-to-lysine substitution mutation at position 1227 in its amino acid sequence (Sc+), and an ScCas9 protein having a threonine-to-lysine substitution mutation at position 1227 and a substitution of residues ADKKLRKRSGKLATE in position 365-379 in the ScCas9 open reading frame (Sc++). Also included are CRISPR-associated DNA endonucleases with a PAM specificity of 5?-NG-3? or 5?-NNG-3? and a method of altering expression of a gene product by utilizing the engineered ScCas9 variants.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2019Publication date: October 22, 2020Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Pranam Chatterjee, Noah Michael Jakimo, Joseph M. Jacobson
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Publication number: 20200048658Abstract: Population-Hastened Assembly Genetic Engineering is a method for continuous genome recoding using a mixed population of cells. Nucleic acid donors are distributed amongst a population of cells that continuously transfer nucleic acids to achieve asynchronous recoding of genetic information within a subpopulation of the cells. Recombination is achieved with biochemical systems compatible with virtually any organism. An engineered directed endonuclease comprises a nucleic acid recognition domain, a nucleic acid endonuclease domain, and a linker fusing or causing interaction between the nucleic acid recognition domain and the nucleic acid endonuclease domain. The method includes causing at least one engineered directed endonuclease to create a nick in a nucleic acid strand, the nick being offset from the recognition sequence of the nucleic acid recognition domain; causing homologous recombination of the strand with a donor nucleotide to create a modified genome; and replicating the modified genome.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2019Publication date: February 13, 2020Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Joseph M. Jacobson, Noah Jakimo, Lisa Nip
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Publication number: 20190366626Abstract: A 3D object according to the invention comprises substrate layers infiltrated by hardened material. The 3D object is fabricated by a method comprising the following steps: Position powder on all or part of a substrate layer. Repeat this step for the remaining substrate layers. Stack the substrate layers. Transform the powder into a substance that flows and subsequently hardens into the hardened material. The hardened material solidifies in a spatial pattern that infiltrates positive regions in the substrate layers and does not infiltrate negative regions in the substrate layers. In a preferred embodiment, the substrate is carbon fiber and excess substrate is removed by abrasion.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2019Publication date: December 5, 2019Applicant: Impossible Objects, Inc.Inventors: Robert Swartz, Buckley Crist, Eugene Gore, Joseph M. Jacobson
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Patent number: 10377080Abstract: A 3D object according to the invention comprises substrate layers infiltrated by a hardened material. The 3D object is fabricated by a method comprising the following steps: Position powder on all or part of a substrate layer. Repeat this step for the remaining substrate layers. Stack the substrate layers. Transform the powder into a substance that flows and subsequently hardens into the hardened material. The hardened material solidifies in a spatial pattern that infiltrates positive regions in the substrate layers and does not infiltrate negative regions in the substrate layers. In a preferred embodiment, the substrate is carbon fiber and excess substrate is removed by abrasion.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2017Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: Impossible Objects, Inc.Inventors: Robert Swartz, Buckley Crist, Eugene Gore, Joseph M. Jacobson
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Patent number: 10377106Abstract: A 3D object according to the invention involves substrate layers infiltrated by a hardened material. The 3D object may be fabricated by a method comprising the following steps: Flatten a substrate layer. Position powder on all or part of a substrate layer. Repeat this step for the remaining substrate layers. Stack the substrate layers. Transform the powder into a substance that flows and subsequently hardens into the hardened material. The hardened material solidifies in a spatial pattern that infiltrates positive regions in the substrate layers and does not infiltrate negative regions in the substrate layers. In a preferred embodiment, the substrate is carbon fiber and excess substrate is removed by abrasion. Flattening a substrate layer involves reducing planar inconsistencies or imperfections, and comprises applying heat to each substrate layer, cooling the substrate layers, and optionally applying tension and/or pressure to the heated and cooled substrate layers.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2017Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: Impossible Objects, Inc.Inventors: Robert Swartz, Buckley Crist, Eugene Gore, Joseph M. Jacobson
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Publication number: 20190218532Abstract: A Streptococcus canis Cas9 (ScCas9) ortholog and its engineered variants, possessing novel PAM specificity, is an addition to the family of CRISPR-Cas9 systems. ScCas9 endonuclease is used in complex with guide RNA, consisting of identical non-target-specific sequence to that of the guide RNA SpCas9, for specific recognition and activity on a DNA target immediately upstream of either an “NNGT” or “NNNGT” PAM sequence. A novel DNA-interacting loop domain within ScCas9, and other Cas9 orthologs, such as those from Streptococcus gordonii and Streptococcus angionosis facilitates a divergent PAM sequence from the “NGG” PAM of SpCas9.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2018Publication date: July 18, 2019Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Joseph M. Jacobson, Noah Michael Jakimo, Pranam Chatterjee
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Publication number: 20180298391Abstract: A self-reconfiguring genome uses a cassette having operons or DNA sequences that code for guide RNA, reverse transcriptase, donor RNA, and a CRISPR cleavage enzyme. A self-reconfiguring genome may be based on lambda recombineering of in situ generated oligonucleotides. A method for programmable self-modification of a cellular genome includes transcribing guide RNA from a self-reconfiguring cassette, associating the transcribed guideRNA with the CRISPR enzyme, intercalcating a region of complimentary sequence within an integration site of the genome, cutting upstream of a PAM site within the integration site; transcribing the donorRNA, translating donorRNA to double-stranded DNA, and recombining the double-stranded DNA via homologous recombination at the cut site of the integration site.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2018Publication date: October 18, 2018Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Noah Jakimo, Peter A. Carr, Joseph M. Jacobson
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Publication number: 20180282722Abstract: A chimeric DNA:RNA guide for very high accuracy Cas9 genome editing employs nucleotide-type substitutions in nucleic acid-guided endonucleases for enhanced specificity. The CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing system is manipulated to generate chimeric DNA:RNA guide strands to minimize the off-target cleavage events of the S. pyogenes Cas9 endonuclease. A DNA:RNA chimeric guide strand is sufficient to guide Cas9 to a specified target sequence for indel formation and minimize off-target cleavage events due to the specificity conferred by DNA-DNA interactions. Use of chimeric mismatch-evading lowered-thermostability guides (“melt-guides”) demonstrate that nucleotide-type substitutions in the spacer can reduce cleavage of sequences mismatched by as few as a single base pair. The chimeric mismatch-evading lowered-thermostability guides replace most gRNA spacer positions with DNA bases to suppress mismatched targets under Cas9's catalytic threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2017Publication date: October 4, 2018Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Noah Jakimo, Pranam Chatterjee, Joseph M. Jacobson
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Patent number: 10030253Abstract: A method for synthesizing long DNA constructs from oligonucleotide precursors directly within a microfluidic device uses several oligonucleotides at once. A precursor mix containing at least two oligonucleotide precursors with at least partial base complementarity is introduced into an input of a microfluidic chip and at least one cycle of at least one gene synthesis protocol is applied to fabricate a DNA construct containing the sequence of at least two oligonucleotide precursors. A method for the synthesis of a modified DNA construct includes electroporating at least one oligonucleotide encoding for at least one point mutation and having homology with at least one DNA region of a target cell into the target cell and incorporating the oligonucleotide into the target cell DNA through the action of recombination protein beta or a recombination protein beta functional homolog.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2014Date of Patent: July 24, 2018Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: David Kong, Peter A. Carr, Joseph M. Jacobson
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Publication number: 20180141305Abstract: A 3D object according to the invention comprises substrate layers infiltrated by a hardened material. The 3D object is fabricated by a method comprising the following steps: Position powder on all or part of a substrate layer. Repeat this step for the remaining substrate layers. Stack the substrate layers. Transform the powder into a substance that flows and subsequently hardens into the hardened material. The hardened material solidifies in a spatial pattern that infiltrates positive regions in the substrate layers and does not infiltrate negative regions in the substrate layers. In a preferred embodiment, the substrate is carbon fiber and excess substrate is removed by abrasion.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2015Publication date: May 24, 2018Applicant: IMPOSSIBLE OBJECTS LLCInventors: Robert Swartz, Buckley Crist, Eugene Gore, Joseph M. Jacobson
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Publication number: 20180126666Abstract: A 3D object according to the invention comprises substrate layers infiltrated by a hardened material. The 3D object is fabricated by a method comprising the following steps: Position powder on all or part of a substrate layer. Repeat this step for the remaining substrate layers. Stack the substrate layers. Transform the powder into a substance that flows and subsequently hardens into the hardened material. The hardened material solidifies in a spatial pattern that infiltrates positive regions in the substrate layers and does not infiltrate negative regions in the substrate layers. In a preferred embodiment, the substrate is carbon fiber and excess substrate is removed by abrasion.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2015Publication date: May 10, 2018Applicant: IMPOSSIBLE OBJECTS LLCInventors: Robert Swartz, Buckley Crist, Eugene Gore, Joseph M. Jacobson
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Publication number: 20180050490Abstract: A 3D object according to the invention comprises substrate layers infiltrated by a hardened material. The 3D object is fabricated by a method comprising the following steps: Position powder on all or part of a substrate layer. Repeat this step for the remaining substrate layers. Stack the substrate layers. Transform the powder into a substance that flows and subsequently hardens into the hardened material. The hardened material solidifies in a spatial pattern that infiltrates positive regions in the substrate layers and does not infiltrate negative regions in the substrate layers. In a preferred embodiment, the substrate is carbon fiber and excess substrate is removed by abrasion.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2017Publication date: February 22, 2018Inventors: Robert Swartz, Buckley Crist, Eugene Gore, Joseph M. Jacobson
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Publication number: 20180022065Abstract: A 3D object according to the invention involves substrate layers infiltrated by a hardened material. The 3D object may be fabricated by a method comprising the following steps: Flatten a substrate layer. Position powder on all or part of a substrate layer. Repeat this step for the remaining substrate layers. Stack the substrate layers. Transform the powder into a substance that flows and subsequently hardens into the hardened material. The hardened material solidifies in a spatial pattern that infiltrates positive regions in the substrate layers and does not infiltrate negative regions in the substrate layers. In a preferred embodiment, the substrate is carbon fiber and excess substrate is removed by abrasion. Flattening a substrate layer involves reducing planar inconsistencies or imperfections, and comprises applying heat to each substrate layer, cooling the substrate layers, and optionally applying tension and/or pressure to the heated and cooled substrate layers.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2017Publication date: January 25, 2018Inventors: Robert Swartz, Buckley Crist, Eugene Gore, Joseph M. Jacobson
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Patent number: 9833949Abstract: A 3D object according to the invention comprises substrate layers infiltrated by a hardened material. The 3D object is fabricated by a method comprising the following steps: Position powder on all or part of a substrate layer. Repeat this step for the remaining substrate layers. Stack the substrate layers. Transform the powder into a substance that flows and subsequently hardens into the hardened material. The hardened material solidifies in a spatial pattern that infiltrates positive regions in the substrate layers and does not infiltrate negative regions in the substrate layers. In a preferred embodiment, the substrate is carbon fiber and excess substrate is removed by abrasion.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2015Date of Patent: December 5, 2017Assignee: Impossible Objects, Inc.Inventors: Robert Swartz, Buckley Crist, Eugene Gore, Joseph M. Jacobson
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Publication number: 20170334133Abstract: A 3D object according to the invention comprises substrate layers infiltrated by a hardened material. The 3D object is fabricated by a method comprising the following steps: Position powder on all or part of a substrate layer. Repeat this step for the remaining substrate layers. Stack the substrate layers. Transform the powder into a substance that flows and subsequently hardens into the hardened material. The hardened material solidifies in a spatial pattern that infiltrates positive regions in the substrate layers and does not infiltrate negative regions in the substrate layers. In a preferred embodiment, the substrate is carbon fiber and excess substrate is removed by abrasion.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2015Publication date: November 23, 2017Inventors: Robert Swartz, Buckley Crist, Eugene Gore, Joseph M. Jacobson
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Patent number: 9776376Abstract: A 3D object according to the invention involves substrate layers infiltrated by a hardened material. The 3D object may be fabricated by a method comprising the following steps: Flatten a substrate layer. Position powder on all or part of a substrate layer. Repeat this step for the remaining substrate layers. Stack the substrate layers. Transform the powder into a substance that flows and subsequently hardens into the hardened material. The hardened material solidifies in a spatial pattern that infiltrates positive regions in the substrate layers and does not infiltrate negative regions in the substrate layers. In a preferred embodiment, the substrate is carbon fiber and excess substrate is removed by abrasion.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2015Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: Impossible Objects, LLCInventors: Robert Swartz, Buckley Crist, Eugene Gore, Joseph M. Jacobson
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Patent number: 9729182Abstract: A platform for context-aware experimentation includes a housing for one or more sensors for obtaining data pertaining to an on-going experiment, a communications subsystem for transmitting data obtained by the sensors, and a microcontroller for receiving data from the sensors, providing it to the communications subsystem, and possibly controlling the sensors. The housing may be a tube, which may be configured to hold a sample and may have a cap, or a waterproof package, which may have an opening to admit at least part of a sample. The platform may include a power source. The platform may include a computer processor, located outside the housing, for analyzing the data obtained by the sensors, determining the experimental context in which the sensors are operating and/or which experimental step in a protocol is being performed, and/or reminding users of required parameters for the steps in the protocol.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2015Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Charles Victor Fracchia, Joseph M. Jacobson
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Publication number: 20170190802Abstract: Fabrication and arrangement of nanoparticles into one-dimensional linear chains is achieved by successive chemical reactions, each reaction adding one or more nanoparticles by building onto exposed, unprotected linker functionalities. Optionally, protecting groups may be used to control and organize growth. Nanoparticle spheres are functionalized in a controlled manner in order to enable covalent linkages. Functionalization of nanoparticles is accomplished by either ligand exchange or chemical modification of the terminal functional groups of the capping ligand. Nanoparticle chains are obtained by a variety of connectivity modes such as direct coupling, use of linker molecules, and use of linear polymeric templates. In particular, a versatile building block system is obtained through controlled monofunctionalization of nanoparticles.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2017Publication date: July 6, 2017Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Joseph M. Jacobson, David W. Mosley, Kie-Moon Sung
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Publication number: 20170168370Abstract: A dielectrophoretic display has a substrate having walls defining a cavity, the cavity having a viewing surface and a side wall inclined to the viewing surface. A fluid is contained within the cavity; and a plurality of particles are present in the fluid. There is applied to the substrate an electric field effective to cause dielectrophoretic movement of the particles so that the particles occupy only a minor proportion of the viewing surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2017Publication date: June 15, 2017Inventors: Karl R. Amundson, Alexandros Cosmos Arango, Joseph M. Jacobson, Thomas H. Whitesides, Michael D. McCreary, Richard J. Paolini, JR.