Patents by Inventor Sven Bilke

Sven Bilke 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: 20230420075
    Abstract: This disclosure describes methods, non-transitory computer readable media, and systems that can determine allele likelihoods of a genomic region exhibiting certain haplotype alleles using one or both of consolidated computations and data exchanges across specialized hardware. For instance, the disclosed systems can determine an intermediate allele likelihood of a genomic region comprising a haplotype allele by running a single-pass-concurrent-multiplication operation. In some cases, the disclosed systems determine and store subsets of intermediate allele likelihoods corresponding to marker-variant groups and extemporaneously generate sets of intermediate allele likelihoods for a set of marker variants by using the intermediate-allele-likelihood subsets as hot-start points.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: Mark David Hahm, Sven Bilke, Andrew Christopher Du Preez, Michael Ruehle
  • Publication number: 20230282309
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for collapsing sequencing reads and identifying similar sequencing reads. In one example, a method includes generating a plurality of first identifier subsequences from a first identifier sequence of each nucleotide sequencing read and generating a first signature for the nucleotide sequencing read by applying hashing to the plurality of first identifier subsequences. The method may include assigning the nucleotide sequencing read to a first particular bin of a first data structure based on the first signature and determining a nucleotide sequence for each first particular bin of the first data structure with one or more nucleotide sequencing reads assigned.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Chen Zhao, Kevin Eric Wu, Sven Bilke
  • Publication number: 20230207059
    Abstract: A nucleic acid sequencing technique is described. Sequence data, e.g., generated by a sequencing device, may be analyzed to scan k-mers of a fixed size n in individual reads in the sequence data. Exact matches of the k-mers in the sequence data with reference k-mers are identified. K-mer matching may be used to identify alternative alleles in sequence data with anomalous distribution associated with contamination or other quality issues and to determine a quality metric in real-time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: Sven Bilke, Johann Felix Wilhelm Schlesinger
  • Patent number: 11688489
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for collapsing sequencing reads and identifying similar sequencing reads. In one example, a method includes generating a plurality of first identifier subsequences from a first identifier sequence of each nucleotide sequencing read and generating a first signature for the nucleotide sequencing read by applying hashing to the plurality of first identifier subsequences. The method may include assigning the nucleotide sequencing read to a first particular bin of a first data structure based on the first signature and determining a nucleotide sequence for each first particular bin of the first data structure with one or more nucleotide sequencing reads assigned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Illumina, Inc.
    Inventors: Chen Zhao, Kevin Eric Wu, Sven Bilke
  • Publication number: 20210350873
    Abstract: A nucleic acid sequencing technique is described. Sequence data, e.g., generated by a sequencing device, may be analyzed to scan k-mers of a fixed size n in individual reads in the sequence data. Exact matches of the k-mers in the sequence data with reference k-mers are identified. The number of exact matches, their distribution in a reference genome, and/or a number of sequence reads in the sequence data that map to different target regions can be used to determine a characteristic of a sample. In one example, the characteristic is a presence of a pathogen in the sample.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Inventors: Sven Bilke, Johann Felix Wilhelm Schlesinger
  • Publication number: 20200135298
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for collapsing sequencing reads and identifying similar sequencing reads. In one example, a method includes generating a plurality of first identifier subsequences from a first identifier sequence of each nucleotide sequencing read and generating a first signature for the nucleotide sequencing read by applying hashing to the plurality of first identifier subsequences. The method may include assigning the nucleotide sequencing read to a first particular bin of a first data structure based on the first signature and determining a nucleotide sequence for each first particular bin of the first data structure with one or more nucleotide sequencing reads assigned.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Chen Zhao, Kevin Eric Wu, Sven Bilke
  • Publication number: 20190156922
    Abstract: Presented herein are techniques for determining microsatellite instability. The techniques include generating a reference sample dataset representative of or mimicking a hypothetical matched sample for an individual sample of interest. The reference sample dataset may be generated from a set of reference normal samples that are not matched to the sample of interest. For samples of interest lacking a matched sample, the reference sample dataset may be used to determine microsatellite instability and to provide an indication of a presence, absence, or degree of microsatellite instability of the sample of interest. The reference sample dataset may be generated such that individual microsatelliate regions associated with a high degree of variability between ethnic groups are filtered out, masked, or otherwise not considered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Inventors: Shile Zhang, Alex S. So, Shannon Kaplan, Kristina M. Kruglyak, Sven Bilke