Patents by Inventor Michelle Digman
Michelle Digman 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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Patent number: 11869191Abstract: A system for determining the viability of an embryo comprises an imaging device, an excitation device configured to direct an excitation energy at an embryo, a controller communicatively connected to the imaging device and the excitation device, configured to drive the excitation device and collect images from the imaging device at an imaging frequency, a processor performing steps comprising acquiring a set of images from the imaging device, performing a Fourier Transformation to generate a set of phasor coordinates, computing a D-trajectory, computing a set of values of additional parameters, comparing the set of values to a set of stored values related to embryos of known viability, and calculating a viability index factor of the embryo from the set of values and the set of stored values. Methods of calculating embryo viability and determining one or more properties of a tissue are also described.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIAInventors: Ning Ma, Michelle Digman, Hongtao Chen
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Patent number: 11833504Abstract: Methods and devices for single cell analysis using fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) are disclosed. The methods utilize microfluidic devices which use traps to immobilize cells for FLIM analysis. The analysed cells may be sorted before or after imaging and may be plant, animal, or bacterial cells. Analysis of the FLIM data may use a phasor plot and may be used to identify a metabolic pattern of the single cells.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2020Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignees: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.Inventors: Abraham P. Lee, Michelle A. Digman, Dohyun Lee, Xuan Li, Ning Ma, Yue Yun
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Publication number: 20230129517Abstract: A system for determining the viability of an embryo comprises an imaging device, an excitation device configured to direct an excitation energy at an embryo, a controller communicatively connected to the imaging device and the excitation device, configured to drive the excitation device and collect images from the imaging device at an imaging frequency, a processor performing steps comprising acquiring a set of images from the imaging device, performing a Fourier Transformation to generate a set of phasor coordinates, computing a D-trajectory, computing a set of values of additional parameters, comparing the set of values to a set of stored values related to embryos of known viability, and calculating a viability index factor of the embryo from the set of values and the set of stored values. Methods of calculating embryo viability and determining one or more properties of a tissue are also described.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2022Publication date: April 27, 2023Inventors: Ning Ma, Michelle Digman, Hongtao Chen
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Patent number: 11517901Abstract: A passive, hydrodynamic technique implemented using a microfluidic device to perform co-encapsulation of samples in droplets and sorting of said droplets is described herein. The hydrodynamic technique utilizes laminar flows and high shear liquid-liquid interfaces at a microfluidic junction to encapsulate samples in the droplets. A sorting mechanism is implemented to separate sample droplets from empty droplets. This technique can achieve a one-one-one encapsulation efficiency of about 80% and can significantly improve the droplet sequencing and related applications in single cell genomics and proteomics.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2019Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIAInventors: Abraham P. Lee, Gopakumar Kamalakshakurup, Mohammad Aghaamoo, Xuan Li, Gisela Lin, Xuhao Luo, Marzieh Ataei, Michelle A. Digman, Francesco Palomba
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Publication number: 20220287995Abstract: Compositions and methods for inhibiting bacterial virulence, as well as methods and materials for use in rapid assessment of antibiotic susceptibility are described. A method for inhibiting bacterial virulence comprises exposing a site containing or suspected of containing virulent bacteria to a carbon source, wherein the carbon source produces a low g value. Examples of such carbon sources include pyruvate, citrate, oxaloacetate, malate, and fumarate. The carbon source can be applied to a surface or administered to a subject.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2020Publication date: September 15, 2022Applicant: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIAInventors: Albert SIRYAPORN, Michelle DIGMAN, Jenu VARGHESE CHACKO, Kumar PERINBAM, Anerudh KANNAN, Allon HOCHBAUM, Katrine WHITESON
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Patent number: 11386559Abstract: A system for determining the viability of an embryo comprises an imaging device, an excitation device configured to direct an excitation energy at an embryo, a controller communicatively connected to the imaging device and the excitation device, configured to drive the excitation device and collect images from the imaging device at an imaging frequency, a processor performing steps comprising acquiring a set of images from the imaging device, performing a Fourier Transformation to generate a set of phasor coordinates, computing a D-trajectory, computing a set of values of additional parameters, comparing the set of values to a set of stored values related to embryos of known viability, and calculating a viability index factor of the embryo from the set of values and the set of stored values. Methods of calculating embryo viability and determining one or more properties of a tissue are also described.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2020Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIAInventors: Ning Ma, Michelle Digman, Hongtao Chen
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Publication number: 20200320708Abstract: A system for determining the viability of an embryo comprises an imaging device, an excitation device configured to direct an excitation energy at an embryo, a controller communicatively connected to the imaging device and the excitation device, configured to drive the excitation device and collect images from the imaging device at an imaging frequency, a processor performing steps comprising acquiring a set of images from the imaging device, performing a Fourier Transformation to generate a set of phasor coordinates, computing a D-trajectory, computing a set of values of additional parameters, comparing the set of values to a set of stored values related to embryos of known viability, and calculating a viability index factor of the embryo from the set of values and the set of stored values. Methods of calculating embryo viability and determining one or more properties of a tissue are also described.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2020Publication date: October 8, 2020Inventors: Ning Ma, Michelle Digman, Hongtao Chen
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Publication number: 20200238288Abstract: Methods and devices for single cell analysis using fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) are disclosed. The methods utilize microfluidic devices which use traps to immobilize cells for FLIM analysis. The analysed cells may be sorted before or after imaging and may be plant, animal, or bacterial cells. Analysis of the FLIM data may use a phasor plot and may be used to identify a metabolic pattern of the single cells.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2020Publication date: July 30, 2020Inventors: Abraham P. Lee, Michelle A. Digman, Dohyun Lee, Xuan Li, Ning Ma, Yue Yun
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Publication number: 20200108393Abstract: A passive, hydrodynamic technique implemented using a microfluidic device to perform co-encapsulation of samples in droplets and sorting of said droplets is described herein. The hydrodynamic technique utilizes laminar flows and high shear liquid-liquid interfaces at a microfluidic junction to encapsulate samples in the droplets. A sorting mechanism is implemented to separate sample droplets from empty droplets. This technique can achieve a one-one-one encapsulation efficiency of about 80% and can significantly improve the droplet sequencing and related applications in single cell genomics and proteomics.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2019Publication date: April 9, 2020Inventors: Abraham P. Lee, Gopakumar Kamalakshakurup, Mohammad Aghaamoo, Xuan Li, Gisela Lin, Xuhao Luo, Marzieh Ataei, Michelle A. Digman, Francesco Palomba
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Patent number: 10222335Abstract: A label-free imaging method to monitor stem cell metabolism discriminates different states of stem cell as they differentiate in a living tissues. We use intrinsic fluorescence biomarkers and the phasor approach to Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy (FLIM). We identify and map intrinsic fluorophores such as collagen, retinol, retinoic acid, flavins, nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH) and porphyrin. We measure the phasor values of germ cells in C. Elegans germ line. Their metabolic fingerprint cluster according to their differentiation state, reflecting changes in FAD concentration and NADH binding during the differentiation pathway. The phasor approach to lifetime imaging provides a label-free, fit-free and sensitive method to identify different metabolic state of cells during differentiation, to sense small changes in the redox state of cells and may identify symmetric and asymmetric divisions and predict cell fate.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2011Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: The Regents of the University of CaliforniaInventors: Chiara Stringari, Enrico Gratton, Michelle Digman, Peter Donovan
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Publication number: 20160231324Abstract: In alternative embodiments, the invention provides high throughput, multiplexed systems or methods for detecting a biological, a physiological or a pathological maker, or a single molecule or a single cell using a droplet microfluidics system integrated with use of a sensor or a sensing system, an aptamer, or a DNAzyme. In alternative embodiments, the sensor or sensing system comprises a nucleic acid based, an antibody based, an enzyme based or a chemical based sensor or sensing system. In alternative embodiments, the invention provides methods for detecting a biological, a physiological or a pathological marker, or a single molecule or a single cell using a droplet system integrated with rapid and sensitive fluorescence detection systems including, for example, a 3D Particle Detector. In alternative embodiments, the invention provides systems comprising Integrated Comprehensive Droplet Digitial Detection (IC 3D).Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2014Publication date: August 11, 2016Inventors: Weian ZHAO, Dong-ku KANG, Kaixiang ZHANG, Md Monsur ALI, Mark A. ECKERT, Feng LI, Enrico GRATTON, MIchelle A. DIGMAN, Louai LABANIEH, Mengrou LU
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Patent number: 9110282Abstract: An optical imaging method based on a feedback principle in which the specific scan pattern is adapted according to the shape of the sample. The feedback approach produces nanometer-resolved three dimensional images of very small and moving features in live cells and in a matter of seconds. Images of microvilli in live cultured opossum kidney cells expressing NaPi co-transporter proteins with different GFP constructs and images of cell protrusions in a collagen matrix are produced with a resolution of about 20 nm. Along cell protrusions in three dimensional cellular adhesions could be identified to the extracellular matrix.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2012Date of Patent: August 18, 2015Assignee: The Regents of the University of CaliforniaInventors: Luca Lanzano, Michelle Digman, Enrico Gratton
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Publication number: 20120276578Abstract: “A label-free imaging method to monitor stem cell metabolism discriminates different states of stem cell as they differentiate in a living tissues. We use intrinsic fluorescence biomarkers and the phasor approach to Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy (FLIM). We identify and map intrinsic fluorophores such as collagen, retinol, retinoic acid, flavins, nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH) and porphyrin. We measure the phasor values of germ cells in C. Elegans germ line. Their metabolic fingerprint cluster according to their differentiation state, reflecting changes in FAD concentration and NADH binding during the differentiation pathway. The phasor approach to lifetime imaging provides a label-free, fit-free and sensitive method to identify different metabolic state of cells during differentiation, to sense small changes in the redox state of cells and may identify symmetric and asymmetric divisions and predict cell fate.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2011Publication date: November 1, 2012Inventors: Chiara Stringari, Enrico Gratton, Michelle Digman, Peter Donovan
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Publication number: 20120250000Abstract: An optical imaging method based on a feedback principle in which the specific scan pattern is adapted according to the shape of the sample. The feedback approach produces nanometer-resolved three dimensional images of very small and moving features in live cells and in a matter of seconds. Images of microvilli in live cultured opossum kidney cells expressing NaPi co-transporter proteins with different GFP constructs and images of cell protrusions in a collagen matrix are produced with a resolution of about 20 nm. Along cell protrusions in three dimensional cellular adhesions could be identified to the extracellular matrix.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2012Publication date: October 4, 2012Applicant: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIAInventors: Luca Lanzano, Michelle Digman, Enrico Gratton