Patents by Inventor William Porto

William Porto 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).

  • COMPUTATIONAL PLATFORM FOR IN SILICO COMBINATORIAL SEQUENCE SPACE EXPLORATION AND ARTIFICIAL EVOLUTION OF PEPTIDES
    Publication number: 20210183469
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods of designing peptides having at least one property of interest, such as ?-helical propensity, higher net charge, hydrophobicity, and/or hydrophobic moment. Also disclosed herein are novel artificially evolved peptides (e.g., antimicrobial peptides), which may be designed according to the methods described herein, and methods of use thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Applicants: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Universidade Católica de Brasília
    Inventors: Timothy Kuan-Ta Lu, Cesar De la Fuente Nunez, William Porto, Octavio Franco
  • COMPUTATIONAL PLATFORM FOR IN SILICO COMBINATORIAL SEQUENCE SPACE EXPLORATION AND ARTIFICIAL EVOLUTION OF PEPTIDES
    Publication number: 20190279741
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods of designing peptides having at least one property of interest, such as ?-helical propensity, higher net charge, hydrophobicity, and/or hydrophobic moment. Also disclosed herein are novel artificially evolved peptides (e.g., antimicrobial peptides), which may be designed according to the methods described herein, and methods of use thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Applicants: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Universidade Católica de Brasília
    Inventors: Timothy Kuan-Ta Lu, Cesar De la Fuente Nunez, William Porto, Octavio Franco
  • Detection of RNA structural elements
    Publication number: 20040018535
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods of identifying structures in nucleic acid sequences using evolutionary computation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2003
    Publication date: January 29, 2004
    Inventors: Rangarajan Sampath, David J. Ecker, Richard H. Griffey, Gary B. Fogel, V. William Porto