Patents by Inventor Rama Ranganathan

Rama Ranganathan 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: 20220348903
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for designing sequence-defined biomolecules, such as proteins using a data-driven, evolution-based process. To design proteins, an iterative method founded on a combination of an unsupervised sequence-based model with a supervised functionality-based model can select candidate amino acid sequences that are likely to have a desired functionality. Feedback from measuring the candidate proteins using a high-throughput gene-synthesis and a protein screening process is used to refine and improve the models guiding the candidate selection to the most promising regions of the very large amino acid sequence search space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: Rama Ranganathan, Andrew Ferguson
  • Patent number: 7587282
    Abstract: Statistical algorithms that are useful to aid in the identification of evolutionarily conserved amino acid positions within a family of proteins, and in the identification of interacting amino acid positions within a protein sequence are disclosed. The algorithms may also be useful in the analysis of other polymer sequences such as polysaccharides, lipids, deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), and ribonucleic acid sequences (RNA), and, more specifically, in the analysis of DNA microarray data. Algorithms useful for analyzing the structural changes of perturbations to determine the mechanisms by which positions are coupled are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2009
    Assignee: Board of Regents, The University of Texas System
    Inventors: Rama Ranganathan, Steve W. Lockless
  • Publication number: 20070212700
    Abstract: Methods of using biological sequence data. Evolved biological sequences may be used to identify the defining biological characteristics of the sequences—the three-dimensional structure and biochemical function. Some of the present methods extract such information, use such information to predict functional mechanism, and/or use such information in the design of artificial biological sequences. Other methods are included, as are related computer readable media and computer systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2006
    Publication date: September 13, 2007
    Inventors: Rama Ranganathan, William Russ, Christopher Larson, Rohit Sharma
  • Publication number: 20060235622
    Abstract: Statistical algorithms that are useful to aid in the identification of evolutionarily conserved amino acid positions within a family of proteins, and in the identification of interacting amino acid positions within a protein sequence are disclosed. The algorithms may also be useful in the analysis of other polymer sequences such as polysaccharides, lipids, deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), and ribonucleic acid sequences (RNA), and, more specifically, in the analysis of DNA microarray data. Algorithms useful for analyzing the structural changes of perturbations to determine the mechanisms by which positions are coupled are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2006
    Publication date: October 19, 2006
    Inventors: Rama Ranganathan, Steve Lockless
  • Patent number: 7016786
    Abstract: Statistical algorithms that are useful to aid in the identification of evolutionarily conserved amino acid positions within a family of proteins, and in the identification of interacting amino acid positions within a protein sequence are disclosed. The algorithms may also be useful in the analysis of other polymer sequences such as polysaccharides, lipids, deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), and ribonucleic acid sequences (RNA), and, more specifically, in the analysis of DNA microarray data. Algorithms useful for analyzing the structural changes of perturbations to determine the mechanisms by which positions are coupled are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2006
    Assignee: Board of Regents, The University of Texas System
    Inventors: Rama Ranganathan, Steve W. Lockless