Patents by Inventor Rob Kimmerling

Rob Kimmerling 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: 20260004874
    Abstract: In silico tools are used to determine possibly effective therapies for treating a patient's cancer based on patient, drug, and cancer information. Functional assays can be performed on living cancer cells from the patient to evaluate the possibly effective therapies along with subsequent genomic or other more destructive assays to provide additional information from a single sample. Drug, patient, cancer, and outcome information can be recorded and updated iteratively and analyzed using machine learning to identify correlations between various patient, cancer, and drug characteristics and expected outcomes and drug efficacies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2025
    Publication date: January 1, 2026
    Inventors: Rob Kimmerling, Selim Olcum, Clifford Reid, Mark Stevens
  • Patent number: 12362038
    Abstract: In silico tools are used to determine possibly effective therapies for treating a patient's cancer based on patient, drug, and cancer information. Functional assays can be performed on living cancer cells from the patient to evaluate the possibly effective therapies along with subsequent genomic or other more destructive assays to provide additional information from a single sample. Drug, patient, cancer, and outcome information can be recorded and updated iteratively and analyzed using machine learning to identify correlations between various patient, cancer, and drug characteristics and expected outcomes and drug efficacies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: Travera, Inc.
    Inventors: Rob Kimmerling, Selim Olcum, Clifford Reid, Mark Stevens
  • Patent number: 11346755
    Abstract: Methods of calibration are provided. A method comprises introducing a material with cell-like properties and a known mass into a sensor on a measurement instrument to generate a calibration reading and adjusting an output module of the measurement instrument until the measurement instrument calibrates to the known mass for the material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Travera, Inc.
    Inventors: Rob Kimmerling, Anthony Minnah, Selim Olcum, Mark Stevens, Madeleine Vacha
  • Publication number: 20200225127
    Abstract: Methods of calibration are provided. A method comprises introducing a material with cell-like properties and a known mass into a sensor on a measurement instrument to generate a calibration reading and adjusting an output module of the measurement instrument until the measurement instrument calibrates to the known mass for the material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Inventors: Rob Kimmerling, Anthony Minnah, Selim Olcum, Mark Stevens, Madeleine Vacha
  • Publication number: 20200227168
    Abstract: The invention provides methods that use machine learning to discover clinical data patterns that are predictive of disease, such as cancer. Clinical data from across a population is provided as input to a machine learning system. The machine learning system discovers associations in data from a plurality of data sources obtained from a population and correlates the associations to cancer status of patients in the population. The methods may further include providing patient data from an individual and predicting, by the machine learning system, a cancer state (e.g., the presence of cancer and a determination of a stage or progression of the cancer, if present) for the individual when the patient data presents one or more of the discovered associations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Inventors: Rob Kimmerling, Selim Olcum, Clifford Reid, Mark Stevens
  • Publication number: 20200227136
    Abstract: In silico tools are used to determine possibly effective therapies for treating a patient's cancer based on patient, drug, and cancer information. Functional assays can be performed on living cancer cells from the patient to evaluate the possibly effective therapies along with subsequent genomic or other more destructive assays to provide additional information from a single sample. Drug, patient, cancer, and outcome information can be recorded and updated iteratively and analyzed using machine learning to identify correlations between various patient, cancer, and drug characteristics and expected outcomes and drug efficacies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Inventors: Rob Kimmerling, Selim Olcum, Clifford Reid, Mark Stevens