Patents by Inventor Matthew Kennedy

Matthew Kennedy 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: 20250092098
    Abstract: The present invention includes light-controlled and light-independent neurotoxin systems and methods for using such neurotoxin systems for rapidly and locally silencing distinct populations of neurons.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Matthew Kennedy, Chandra Tucker
  • Patent number: 12241073
    Abstract: The invention provides cereal plants having a high level of fructan useful for the production of a range of food, beverage, nutraceutical and pharmaceutical products. The invention provides methods of producing high-fructan products from plants modified to comprise a reduced level of an endogenous polypeptide with starch synthase activity, and products so produced. In some embodiments, plants are modified by introduction of an agent such as a nucleic acid molecule which down regulates endogenous starch synthase II gene expression.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATION
    Inventors: Colin Leslie Dow Jenkins, Bryan Charles Clarke, Zhongyi Li, Matthew Kennedy Morell
  • Patent number: 12162912
    Abstract: The present invention includes light-controlled and light-independent neurotoxin systems and methods for using such neurotoxin systems for rapidly and locally silencing distinct populations of neurons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of Colorado, a body corporate
    Inventors: Matthew Kennedy, Chandra Tucker
  • Publication number: 20240397984
    Abstract: Provided are food and drink ingredients produced from wheat grain which has a low level (2-30%) of total starch branching enzyme II activity and an amylose content in the starch of at least 50% (w/w), and processes for producing and using the ingredients. Also provided are foods produced from the ingredients which may be used in humans to improve one or more parameters of metabolic health, bowel health or cardiovascular health.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Applicant: Arista Cereal Technologies Pty Limited
    Inventors: Ahmed Regina, Matthew Kennedy Morell, Pierre Georges Louis Berbezy, Elisabeth Marie-Anne Ida Chanliaud, Bernard Duperrier
  • Publication number: 20240293582
    Abstract: This disclosure provides, for example, double stranded DNA (dsDNA) molecules comprising a chemically modified cytosine nucleotide. In some embodiments, the dsDNA molecules comprise a therapeutic payload sequence. In some embodiments, the dsDNA molecules are resistant to endonuclease digestion and/or resistant to immune sensor recognition, and supports expression of a therapeutic payload encoded in the dsDNA molecules. The disclosure also provides, for example, pharmaceutical compositions comprising dsDNA molecules comprising a chemically modified cytosine nucleotide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2024
    Publication date: September 5, 2024
    Inventors: Jacob Rosenblum Rubens, Eric Christopher Keen, Alexandra Rachael Sneider, Jeffrey Tsao, Camilo Ayala Breton, Carl Wayne Brown, III, Samuel Alves-Czachor, Edward Matthew Kennedy
  • Patent number: 12075806
    Abstract: Provided are food and drink ingredients produced from wheat grain which has a low level (2-30%) of total starch branching enzyme II activity and an amylose content in the starch of at least 50% (w/w), and processes for producing and using the ingredients. Also provided are foods produced from the ingredients which may be used in humans to improve one or more parameters of metabolic health, bowel health or cardiovascular health.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: ARISTA CEREAL TECHNOLOGIES PTY LIMITED
    Inventors: Ahmed Regina, Matthew Kennedy Morell, Pierre Georges Louis Berbezy, Elisabeth Marie-Anne Ida Chanliaud, Bernard Duperrier
  • Publication number: 20240285805
    Abstract: This disclosure provides, for example, double stranded DNA (dsDNA) molecules comprising a chemically modified uridine nucleotide. In some embodiments, the dsDNA molecules comprise a therapeutic payload sequence. In some embodiments, the dsDNA molecules are resistant to endonuclease digestion and/or resistant to immune sensor recognition, and supports expression of a therapeutic payload encoded in the dsDNA molecules. The disclosure also provides, for example, pharmaceutical compositions comprising dsDNA molecules comprising a chemically modified uridine nucleotide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2024
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Inventors: Jacob Rosenblum Rubens, Eric Christopher Keen, Alexandra Rachael Sneider, Jeffrey Tsao, Camilo Ayala Breton, Carl Wayne Brown, III, Samuel Alves-Czachor, Edward Matthew Kennedy
  • Patent number: 11980918
    Abstract: A hydroblaster includes a carriage. A plurality of bearings is rotatably mounted to the carriage at a bottom portion of the carriage. A plurality of legs is mounted to the carriage at the bottom portion of the carriage. The plurality of legs extend downwardly from the bottom portion of the carriage past the plurality of bearings. A fluid conduit is disposed on the carriage at a top portion of the carriage. A first motor is mounted to the carriage at the top portion of the carriage. The first motor is coupled to the fluid conduit such that the first motor is operable to rotate the fluid conduit. A second motor is mounted to the carriage at the top portion of the carriage. The second motor is coupled to a gear positioned at the bottom portion of the carriage such that the second motor is operable to rotate the gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Thompson Industrial Services, LLC.
    Inventor: Matthew Kennedy
  • Publication number: 20240122218
    Abstract: Wheat grain (Triticum aestivum) comprising an embryo and starch, wherein the embryo comprises two identical alleles of an SBEIIa-A gene, two identical alleles of an SBEIIa-B gene and two identical alleles of an SBEIIa-D gene, wherein each of the SBEIIa genes gives rise to an amount of protein (w/w) or a protein having SBEIIa activity which is lower than the corresponding wild-type gene, and at least one of said genes comprises a point mutation, wherein the starch comprises amylose such that the grain has an amylose content of at least 50% (w/w) as a proportion of the extractable starch of the grain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: ARISTA CEREAL TECHNOLOGIES PTY LIMITED
    Inventors: Bernard Duperrier, Pierre Georges Louis Berbezy, Elisabeth Marie-Anne Ida Chanliaud, Ahmed Regina, Matthew Kennedy Morell
  • Patent number: 11737482
    Abstract: Wheat grain (Triticum aestivum) comprising an embryo and starch, wherein the embryo comprises two identical alleles of an SBEIIa-A gene, two identical alleles of an SBEIIa-B gene and two identical alleles of an SBEIIa-D gene, wherein each of the SBEIIa genes gives rise to an amount of protein (w/w) or a protein having SBEIIa activity which is lower than the corresponding wild-type gene, and at least one of said genes comprises a point mutation, wherein the starch comprises amylose such that the grain has an amylose content of at least 50% (w/w) as a proportion of the extractable starch of the grain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: ARISTA CEREAL TECHNOLOGIES PTY, LTD.
    Inventors: Ahmed Regina, Pierre Georges Louis Berbezy, Elisabeth Marie-Anne Ida Chanliaud, Bernard Duperrier, Matthew Kennedy Morell
  • Patent number: 11591307
    Abstract: A method of processing cannabis plant matter is provided. It is a particular aspect of the invention to utilize cannabis waste from the processing methods and in a sense recycle and use the byproducts to create additional products. The method describes harvesting cannabis plant matter at a predetermined time, processing the cannabis plant matter to create cannabis juice and cannabis pulp, and utilizing the cannabis pulp to create additional products. This eliminates the waste from processing cannabis plant matter solving a potential crisis in the fact that cannabis plant matter having cannabinoids leech into the soil and water table from disposal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Drive Foods Corp
    Inventors: Rory Chesley Patrick Millikin, Matthew Kennedy
  • Patent number: 11592463
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices are disclosed for performing mechanosynthesis, including those that involve bulk chemical preparation of tips, multiple tips for supplying feedstock, and use of sequential tips such as in a thermodynamic cascade; such features may simplify starting requirements, increase versatility, and/or reduce complexity in the mechanosynthesis equipment and/or process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: CBN Nano Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Ralph C. Merkle, Robert A. Freitas, Jr., Jeremy Barton, Damian Allis, Tait Takatani, Michael Shawn Marshall, Matthew Kennedy
  • Publication number: 20230051640
    Abstract: A hydroblaster includes a carriage. A plurality of bearings is rotatably mounted to the carriage at a bottom portion of the carriage. A plurality of legs is mounted to the carriage at the bottom portion of the carriage. The plurality of legs extend downwardly from the bottom portion of the carriage past the plurality of bearings. A fluid conduit is disposed on the carriage at a top portion of the carriage. A first motor is mounted to the carriage at the top portion of the carriage. The first motor is coupled to the fluid conduit such that the first motor is operable to rotate the fluid conduit. A second motor is mounted to the carriage at the top portion of the carriage. The second motor is coupled to a gear positioned at the bottom portion of the carriage such that the second motor is operable to rotate the gear.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventor: Matthew Kennedy
  • Publication number: 20220330585
    Abstract: Provided are food and drink ingredients produced from wheat grain which has a low level (2-30%) of total starch branching enzyme II activity and an amylose content in the starch of at least 50% (w/w), and processes for producing and using the ingredients. Also provided are foods produced from the ingredients which may be used in humans to improve one or more parameters of metabolic health, bowel health or cardiovascular health.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Applicant: Arista Cereal Technologies Pty Limited
    Inventors: Ahmed Regina, Matthew Kennedy Morell, Pierre Georges Louis Berbezy, Elisabeth Marie-Anne Ida Chanliaud, Bernard Duperrier
  • Publication number: 20220162627
    Abstract: The invention provides cereal plants having a high level of fructan useful for the production of a range of food, beverage, nutraceutical and pharmaceutical products. The invention provide, methods of producing high-fructan products from plants modified to comprise a reduced level of an endogenous polypeptide with starch synthase activity, and products so produced. In some embodiments, plants are modified by introduction of an agent such as a nucleic acid molecule which down regulates endogenous starch synthase II gene expression.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
    Inventors: Colin Leslie Dow Jenkins, Bryan Charles Clarke, Zhongyi Li, Matthew Kennedy Morell
  • Patent number: 11304432
    Abstract: Provided are food and drink ingredients produced from wheat grain which has a low level (2-30%) of total starch branching enzyme II activity and an amylose content in the starch of at least 50% (w/w), and processes for producing and using the ingredients. Also provided are foods produced from the ingredients which may be used in humans to improve one or more parameters of metabolic health, bowel health or cardiovascular health.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: ARISTA CEREAL TECHNOLOGIES PTY LIMITED
    Inventors: Ahmed Regina, Matthew Kennedy Morell, Pierre Georges Louis Berbezy, Elisabeth Marie-Anne Ida Chanliaud, Bernard Duperrier
  • Patent number: 11266171
    Abstract: The present invention provides a process for producing a food ingredient or beverage ingredient. The present invention also provides a process for producing food product or beverage product. The present invention also provides a process for providing starch, amylose, amylopectin, ?-glucan, fructan, non-starch polysaccharide, dietary fibre or resistant starch to improve one or more indicators of health in a mammal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: THE HEALTHY GRAIN PTY LIMITED
    Inventors: Zhongyi Li, Matthew Kennedy Morell, Stephen Alan Jobling
  • Publication number: 20220017577
    Abstract: The present invention includes light-controlled and light-independent neurotoxin systems and methods for using such neurotoxin systems for rapidly and locally silencing distinct populations of neurons.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Inventors: Matthew Kennedy, Chandra Tucker
  • Publication number: 20210403322
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices are disclosed for performing mechanosynthesis, including those that involve bulk chemical preparation of tips, multiple tips for supplying feedstock, and use of sequential tips such as in a thermodynamic cascade; such features may simplify starting requirements, increase versatility, and/or reduce complexity in the mechanosynthesis equipment and/or process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Ralph C. Merkle, Robert A. Freitas, JR., Jeremy Barton, Damian Allis, Tait Takatani, Michael Shawn Marshall, Matthew Kennedy
  • Patent number: 11148944
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices are disclosed for performing mechanosynthesis, including those that involve bulk chemical preparation of tips, multiple tips for supplying feedstock, and use of sequential tips such as in a thermodynamic cascade; such features may simplify starting requirements, increase versatility, and/or reduce complexity in the mechanosynthesis equipment and/or process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: CBN Nano Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Ralph C. Merkle, Robert A. Freitas, Jr., Jeremy Barton, Aru Hill, Michael Drew, Damian Allis, Tait Takatani, Michael Shawn Marshall, Matthew Kennedy