Patents by Inventor Martin Kircher

Martin Kircher 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: 20230212672
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods of determining one or more tissues and/or cell-types contributing to cell-free DNA (“cfDNA”) in a biological sample of a subject. In some embodiments, the present disclosure provides a method of identifying a disease or disorder in a subject as a function of one or more determined more tissues and/or cell-types contributing to cfDNA in a biological sample from the subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventors: Jay SHENDURE, Matthew SNYDER, Martin KIRCHER
  • Patent number: 11352670
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods of determining one or more tissues and/or cell-types contributing to cell-free DNA (“cfDNA”) in a biological sample of a subject. In some embodiments, the present disclosure provides a method of identifying a disease or disorder in a subject as a function of one or more determined more tissues and/or cell-types contributing to cfDNA in a biological sample from the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
    Inventors: Jay Shendure, Matthew Snyder, Martin Kircher
  • Publication number: 20210010081
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods of determining one or more tissues and/or cell-types contributing to cell-free DNA (“cfDNA”) in a biological sample of a subject. In some embodiments, the present disclosure provides a method of identifying a disease or disorder in a subject as a function of one or more determined more tissues and/or cell-types contributing to cfDNA in a biological sample from the subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Inventors: Jay SHENDURE, Matthew SNYDER, Martin KIRCHER
  • Publication number: 20190127794
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods of determining one or more tissues and/or cell-types contributing to cell-free DNA (“cfDNA”) in a biological sample of a subject. In some embodiments, the present disclosure provides a method of identifying a disease or disorder in a subject as a function of one or more determined more tissues and/or cell-types contributing to cfDNA in a biological sample from the subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: Jay SHENDURE, Matthew SNYDER, Martin KIRCHER
  • Publication number: 20170211143
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods of determining one or more tissues and/or cell-types contributing to cell-free DNA (“cfDNA”) in a biological sample of a subject. In some embodiments, the present disclosure provides a method of identifying a disease or disorder in a subject as a function of one or more determined more tissues and/or cell-types contributing to cfDNA in a biological sample from the subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2015
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Inventors: Jay SHENDURE, Matthew SNYDER, Martin KIRCHER
  • Publication number: 20160357903
    Abstract: Current methods for annotating and interpreting human genetic variation typically exploit only a single information type (e.g., conservation) and/or are restricted in scope (e.g., to missense changes). Here, a method for objectively integrating many diverse annotations into a single measure (integrated deleteriousness score, or C-score) for each variant is described. The method may be implemented as a support vector machine (SVM) trained to differentiate high-frequency human-derived alleles from simulated variants. C-scores were precomputed for all 8.6 billion possible human single-nucleotide variants and allow scoring of short insertions-deletions. C-scores correlate with allelic diversity, annotations of functionality, pathogenicity, disease severity, experimentally measured regulatory effects and complex trait associations, and they highly rank known pathogenic variants within individual genomes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2014
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Applicants: University of Washington through its Center for Commercialization, Hudsonsalpha Institute for Biotechnology
    Inventors: Jay Shendure, Gregory M Cooper, Martin Kircher, Daniela Witten
  • Patent number: 7852068
    Abstract: A switch adapter is integrateable into a seat belt lock and used for monitoring the locking and unlocking state of the lock. The switch adapter includes a monolithic plastic part and is at least two adapter areas which are movable with respect to each other. The first adapter area carries a first switch element and the second adapter area carries a second switch element. The switch adapter is suitably integrateable into the lock of the seat belt which is provided with a frame and a locking element which is movably mounted so as to switch the seat belt buckle between a locking position and an unlocking position. The switch adapter is used for detecting the locking state of the seat belt locking element. For this purpose, the switch adapter and the locking element are actively connectable to each in such a way that the switching state of the switching adapter and the position of the locking element are modifiable only simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Polycontact AG
    Inventors: Martin Kircher, Henry-J. Schulze