Patents Issued in April 30, 2024
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Patent number: 11970705Abstract: Compositions and methods for controlling pests are provided. The methods involve transforming organisms with a nucleic acid sequence encoding an insecticidal protein. In particular, the nucleic acid sequences are useful for preparing plants and microorganisms that possess insecticidal activity. Thus, transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, plant tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions are insecticidal nucleic acids and proteins of plant species. The sequences find use in the construction of expression vectors for subsequent transformation into organisms of interest including plants, as probes for the isolation of other homologous (or partially homologous) genes. The pesticidal proteins find use in controlling, inhibiting growth or killing Lepidopteran, Coleopteran, Dipteran, fungal, Hemipteran and nematode pest populations and for producing compositions with insecticidal activity.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Inventors: James J English, Jimei Wang, Nasser Yalpani
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Patent number: 11970706Abstract: Provided is a nonhuman animal model that is obtained by modifying a gene encoding thioredoxin and useful as a disease model of aging, kidney diseases, cardiovascular diseases, hypertension, aortic dissection, chronic obstructive lung disease, age-dependent epilepsy, abnormality of lipid metabolism, anemia, osteoporosis, abnormal immunity, etc. These variety of phenotypes are caused by the fact that a modification of a gene encoding thioredoxin induces hypofunction of thioredoxin expressed in multiple organs throughout the body. The gene encoding thioredoxin is a gene selected from among TXN, TRX, TRX1, RRDX, Txn1, Txn, Trx1 and ADF.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2018Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignees: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.Inventors: Iori Ohmori, Mamoru Ouchida, Tomoji Mashimo
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Patent number: 11970707Abstract: A strong insulator fragment from foamy virus, which can be used to insulate expression of a transgene and reduce genotoxicity of integrating vectors comprising such. The insulator fragment can also be used in gene targeting constructs in gene editing.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2018Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTERInventor: Punam Malik
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Patent number: 11970708Abstract: Disclosed is a gene therapy vector in which the occurrence of recombination is minimized. In order to minimize the occurrence of recombination, which is a major problem in the production and infection of a retroviral vector virus that continuously expresses a therapeutic gene during virus replication, a cleaved MCMV promoter was prepared by cutting the MCMV promoter on the basis of a repeat sequence, and the cleaved MCMV promoter was introduced to prepare a vector. It was confirmed that the vector having the cleaved MCMV promoter incorporated therein does not cause recombinations even after being incubated multiple times, and shows a continuous expression of the therapeutic protein, and in cells transfected with the virus containing the vector, cell death effectively occurs when a prodrug is administered thereto. Accordingly, the vector with minimized recombination occurrence of the present invention can be advantageously used for the treatment of cancer.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2023Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Articure Inc.Inventors: Yeon-Soo Kim, Moonkyung Kang, Soojin Kim
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Patent number: 11970709Abstract: The present invention provides recombinant adenoviral vectors, immunogenic compositions thereof and their uses in medicine. In particular, the present invention provides an adenoviral vector comprising the genome of an adenovirus other than AdHu5 and AdY25, wherein the genome of the adenovirus has been modified such that the vector lacks the native E4 locus of the adenovirus and comprises heterologous E4Orfl, E4Orf2 and E4Orf3 coding regions from AdY25.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Oxford University Innovation LimitedInventors: Sarah C. Gilbert, Adrian V S Hill, Matthew G. Cottingham, Matthew Dicks, Susan J. Morris, Alexander Douglas
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Patent number: 11970710Abstract: Disclosed herein are Type I Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated (Cas) system related compositions and methods of using said Type I CRISPR/Cas system related compositions for altering gene expression and genome engineering. The invention relates to compositions comprising Type I CRISPR-Cas polypeptides and CRISPR array nucleic acids designed for genome modification in eukaryotic cells and for targeted killing of eukaryotic cells.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2016Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignees: Duke University, North Carolina State UniversityInventors: Charles A. Gersbach, Adrian Pickar Oliver, Chase Beisel
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Patent number: 11970711Abstract: The present disclosure provides a DNA-targeting RNA that comprises a targeting sequence and, together with a modifying polypeptide, provides for site-specific modification of a target DNA and/or a polypeptide associated with the target DNA. The present disclosure further provides site-specific modifying polypeptides. The present disclosure further provides methods of site-specific modification of a target DNA and/or a polypeptide associated with the target DNA The present disclosure provides methods of modulating transcription of a target nucleic acid in a target cell, generally involving contacting the target nucleic acid with an enzymatically inactive Cas9 polypeptide and a DNA-targeting RNA. Kits and compositions for carrying out the methods are also provided. The present disclosure provides genetically modified cells that produce Cas9; and Cas9 transgenic non-human multicellular organisms.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignees: The Regents of the University of California, University of ViennaInventors: Jennifer A. Doudna, Martin Jinek, Krzysztof Chylinski, Emmanuelle Charpentier
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Patent number: 11970712Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of stem cell biology, in particular the lineage specific differentiation of pluripotent or multipotent stem cells, which can include, but is not limited to, human embryonic stem cells (hESC) in addition to nonembryonic human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSC), somatic stem cells, stem cells from patients with a disease, or any other cell capable of lineage specific differentiation. Specifically described are methods to direct the lineage specific differentiation of hESC and/or hiPSC into floor plate midbrain progenitor cells and then further into large populations of midbrain fate FOXA2+LMX1A+TH+ dopamine (DA) neurons using novel culture conditions.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2020Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTERInventors: Lorenz Studer, Jae-Won Shim, Sonja Kriks
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Patent number: 11970713Abstract: The invention relates to a method for long-term ex vivo maintenance or expansion of one or more of a human erythroblast, a human megakaryocyte-erythroid progenitor, or a human common myeloid progenitor, comprising the step of: culturing cells comprising one or more of those cells in a culture medium comprising one or more selected from a tankyrase inhibitor, a growth factor, a B-Raf kinase inhibitor and a GSK-3 inhibitor.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: OCGENE THERAPEUTICS CORPORATIONInventors: Chang Tong, Yibin Lin, Kangtao Lv
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Patent number: 11970714Abstract: Described herein are methods and compositions related to generation of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). Improved techniques for establishing highly efficient, reproducible reprogramming using non-integrating episomal plasmid vectors. Using the described reprogramming protocol, one is able to consistently reprogram non-T cells with close to 100% success from non-T cell or non-B cell sources. Further advantages include use of a defined reprogramming media E7 and using defined clinically compatible substrate recombinant human L-521. Generation of iPSCs from these blood cell sources allows for recapitulation of the entire genomic repertoire, preservation of genomic fidelity and enhanced genomic stability.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2020Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Cedars-Sinai Medical CenterInventors: Dhruv Sareen, Loren A. Ornelas, Clive Svendsen
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Patent number: 11970715Abstract: Disclosed is a pH-sensitive and bioreducible polymer-virus complex which can destroy tumor cells more effectively by increasing the efficiency of virus transduction. A pH-sensitive and bioreducible polymer contains (i) an escapable portion from immune reactions, (ii) a chargeable portion having one or more amine groups and (iii) a bioreducible portion including one or more disulfide linkages. The and to a pharmaceutical composition containing the polymer-virus complex. Also disclosed are a pharmaceutical composition containing the pH-sensitive and bioreducible polymer-virus complex and methods for treating cancer in a subject, employing the composition.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: GENEMEDICINE CO., LTD.Inventors: Chae Ok Yun, Dayananda Kasala
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Patent number: 11970716Abstract: Methods and compositions are provided for transferring a genetic circuit from one prokaryotic cell (“donor cell”) to another prokaryotic cell (“recipient cell” or “target cell”). The genetic circuit contains a nucleic acid of interest under the transcriptional control of a repressor binding sequence. The nucleic acid sequence of interest may encode a protein or RNA of interest.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2023Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: ELIGO BIOSCIENCEInventors: Jesus Fernandez Rodriguez, Antonina Krawczyk, Xavier Duportet
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Patent number: 11970717Abstract: Provided are methods and compositions for activating oligonucleotide aptamer-deactivated DNA polymerases, comprising cleaving the aptamer by endonuclease V enzymatic activity to reduce or eliminate binding of the oligonucleotide aptamer to the DNA polymerase, thereby activating DNA synthesis activity of the DNA polymerase in a reaction mixture. Mixtures for use in methods of the invention are also provided. The oligonucleotide aptamers of the present invention are circular and comprise one or more deoxyinosine nucleotides providing for aptamer-specific recognition and cleavage of the circular aptamer by the endonuclease V enzymatic activity. Exemplary oligonucleotide aptamers, mixtures and methods employing endonuclease V enzymatic activity are provided.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: CepheidInventors: Igor V. Kutyavin, Sergey G. Lokhov
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Patent number: 11970718Abstract: An extracellular vesicle loaded with a nucleic acid cargo and method for preparing the loaded vesicle is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Carmine Therapeutics Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Harvey Lodish, Ronne Yeo, Waqas Muhammad Usman, Tenzin Gocha
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Patent number: 11970719Abstract: Provided are compositions and methods that include one or more of: (1) a Class 2 CRISPR/Cas effector protein, a nucleic acid encoding the effector protein, and/or a modified host cell comprising the effector protein (and/or a nucleic acid encoding the same); (2) a CRISPR/Cas guide RNA that binds to and provides sequence specificity to the Class 2 CRISPR/Cas effector protein, a nucleic acid encoding the CRISPR/Cas guide RNA, and/or a modified host cell comprising the CRISPR/Cas guide RNA (and/or a nucleic acid encoding the same); and (3) a CRISPR/Cas transactivating noncoding RNA (trancRNA), a nucleic acid encoding the CRISPR/Cas trancRNA, and/or a modified host cell comprising the CRISPR/Cas trancRNA (and/or a nucleic acid encoding the same).Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2018Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: The Regents of the University of CaliforniaInventors: Jennifer A. Doudna, David Burstein, Janice S. Chen, Lucas B. Harrington, David Paez-Espino, Jillian F. Banfield
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Patent number: 11970720Abstract: Provided herein are CRISPR/Cas methods and compositions for targeting RNA molecules, which can be used to detect, edit, or modify a target RNA.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2020Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Salk Institute for Biological StudiesInventors: Patrick D. Hsu, Silvana Konermann
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Patent number: 11970722Abstract: The present invention provides engineered acid alpha-glucosidase (GAA) polypeptides and compositions thereof. In some embodiments, the engineered GAA polypeptides have been optimized to provide increased expression, stability at neutral pH, and activity in cell lysates. The invention also provides methods for utilization of the compositions comprising the engineered GAA polypeptides for therapeutic and other purposes.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2020Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Codexis, Inc.Inventors: William Casey Hallows, Rachel Cathleen Botham, Yu Zhu, Chinping Chng, Nikki Dellas, Gjalt W. Huisman, Moulay Hicham Alaoui Ismaili, David William Homan, Adam P. Silverman, Jonathan Vroom, Jessica P. Lao
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Patent number: 11970723Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a strain producing D-allulose 3-epimerase and application thereof, and belongs to the technical field of bioengineering. The present disclosure provides a method for improving the expression of D-allulose 3-epimerase by screening promoters and optimizing RBS thereof. The recombinant Bacillus subtilis constructed using thevectors pP43NMK-hag and pP43NMK-hag-RBS4 provided by the present disclosure improves the enzyme activity of a target gene D-allulose 3-epimerase, and theenzyme activities in shake flasks upon transformation are 1.30 times and 1.69 times that of an original vector. The present disclosure further provides a non-antibiotic resistance vector and a non-antibiotic resistance recombinant B. subtilis strain. Using the non-antibiotic resistance strain B. subtilis 1A751-dal-/pP43NMK-hag-RBS4-dpe-dal provided by the present disclosure, the highest fermentation enzyme activity in a shake flask is 24.72 U/mL, and the enzyme activity in a fermenter is 714.8 U/mL.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2023Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: JIANGNAN UNIVERSITYInventors: Tao Zhang, Mengying Hu, Bo Jiang, Mengli Li
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Patent number: 11970724Abstract: The specification describes an improved serum-free animal cell culture medium, which can used for the production of a protein of interest. Ornithine, or a combination of ornithine and putrescine can be added to serum-free media or chemically defined media to improve viable cell density, to reduce cell doubling time, and to increase the production of a protein of interest.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Inventors: Shadia Abike Oshodi, Amy S. Johnson, Shawn M. Lawrence
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Patent number: 11970725Abstract: Provided herein are E. coli host strains with improved capacity for producing recombinant proteins.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2023Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Scarab Genomics LLCInventors: Frederick R. Blattner, Robert E. Novy, David A. Frisch, Charles Landry, Hyunsic Choi, Eric A. Steffen, John Brandon
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Patent number: 11970726Abstract: The invention relates to the field of microbiology and detecting micro-organism. Provided is a method for the quantitative analysis of microbial cells in a liquid sample, comprising the steps of (i) contacting the sample with a nucleic acid binding fluorescent dye to stain for nucleic acids in said microbial cells; (ii) subjecting the labelled cells to a fluorescence microscopy imaging method and determining, based on the nucleic acid staining, for a plurality of single cells at least a first parameter reflecting the nucleic acid content of said cell and a second parameter reflecting the extent of stretching of said cell; (iii) classifying based on said at least first and second parameter said cell into one of the following categories: (A) Viable cultivable cells with a nucleic acid content value between >=0.1 and <1.0 and extent of stretching of the cell value between >=1.0 and 10 ???m2, (B) Viable non-cultivable cells with a nucleic acid content value of >?0.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2018Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Dutch Water Technologies B.V.Inventors: Gerrit Geert Tamminga, Antonius Johannes Hendrikus Hyacinthus Engelaar, Gijsbert Johan Jansen
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Patent number: 11970727Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a pathogenic microorganism sample collection and preservation device with a protection function, including a sampler and a preservation container; the sampler and the preservation container are both packaged by independent aseptic packaging bags. The sampler includes a sample collection mechanism, a holding mechanism, and a protection mechanism arranged between the sample collection mechanism and the holding mechanism. Before sample collection, the preservation container is sealed by an assorted sealing cover. The sample collection and preservation device of the present disclosure is convenient for holding and flexible adjustment of a sample collection angle. The protection mechanism between the holding mechanism and the sample collection mechanism plays a role of shielding, thus avoiding the problem of cross contamination.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Inventors: Yanhua Xie, Yansen Xie, Mitchell Brown
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Patent number: 11970728Abstract: The present application discloses a method for rapidly identifying the resistance of wheat to black point disease caused by Bipolaris sorokiniana, where testing takes places in an indoor, controlled environment. The test method includes surface sterilization of wheat seeds, and cultivating wheat seedlings from the sterilized wheat seeds; preparing conidial suspension of Bipolaris sorokiniana, and spraying the conidial suspension on the seedlings at one-leaf-one-shoot stage; recording the percentage of the diseased leaf area in total leaf area of the first leaf of the wheat seedling on the 10th day of inoculation; calculating the black point incidence of the wheat according to an equation, and then evaluating the resistance of wheat to black point disease caused by Bipolaris sorokiniana through the black point incidence.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Henan Agricultural UniversityInventors: Qiaoyun Li, Guihong Yin, Haiyong Li, Yumei Jiang, Jishan Niu, Mengyu Li, Siyu Wang, Kaige Xu
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Patent number: 11970729Abstract: Methods of sequencing molecules based on luminescence lifetimes and/or intensities are provided. In some aspects, methods of sequencing nucleic acids involve determining the luminescence lifetimes, and optionally luminescence intensities, of a series of luminescently labeled nucleotides incorporated during a nucleic acid sequencing reaction.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Quantum-Si IncorporatedInventors: Jonathan M. Rothberg, Jeremy Lackey, Brian Reed, Xinghua Shi, Haidong Huang
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Patent number: 11970730Abstract: The present disclosure describes compositions of matter comprising a ribonucleoprotein complex comprising a nucleic acid-guided nuclease and a guide RNA, and further comprising and a blocking nucleic acid molecule represented by Formula III in the 5?-to-3? direction comprises: T-D-M-A-(B-L)J-C; wherein T is 17-135 nucleotides in length; D is 0-10 nucleotides in length; M is 1-25 nucleotides in length or is absent, wherein if M is absent then T-D and A-(B-L)J-C are separate nucleic acid strands; A is 0-15 nucleotides in length and comprises at least 50% sequence complementarity to D; B is 4-12 nucleotides in length and comprises at least 50% sequence complementarity to T; L is 3-25 nucleotides in length; J is an integer between 1 and 10; C is 4-15 nucleotides in length; and wherein the blocking nucleic acid molecule comprises a sequence complementary to a gRNA.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2023Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: VedaBio, Inc.Inventors: Anurup Ganguli, Ariana Mostafa, Jacob Berger, Ashish Pandey, Rashid Bashir
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Patent number: 11970731Abstract: The invention relates to compounds, methods and compositions for improving on nucleic acid polymerization, including DNA replication by in vitro primer extension to generate, for example, polymers for nanopore-based single molecule sequencing of a DNA template. A nucleic acid polymerase reaction composition is provided with polymerization enhancement moieties, which allows enhanced DNA polymerase activity with nucleotide analogs, resulting in improved length of primer extension products for sequencing applications.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2018Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Roche Sequencing Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Mark Stamatios Kokoris, John Tabone, Melud Nabavi, Aaron Jacobs, Dylan O'Connell, Drew Goodman, Lacey Merrill, Jagadeeswaran Chandrasekar, Kendall Berg, Samantha Vellucci, Jessica Vellucci
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Patent number: 11970732Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for determining the DNA quality of a biological sample and, more specifically, to a method for determining the DNA quality of a biological sample by performing a quantitative polymerase chain reaction (PCR) using primers capable of amplifying a target gene, a method for preparing the primers used in the method, and a method for standardizing the amount of detected target gene mutation by using the determined DNA quality. The method of the present invention enables objective evaluation of the DNA quality of a biological sample used in gene analysis and the presentation of objective results on the expression ratio of a gene mutation, thereby providing reliable information in the fields of clinical research and companion diagnosis.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2018Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignees: GENCURIX INC., LOGONE BIO CONVERGENCE RESEARCH FOUNDATIONInventors: Young Kee Shin, Jin Ju Kim, Sung Su Kim, Hyun Jeung Choi, Young Ho Moon, Myung Sun Kim, Jee Eun Kim
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Patent number: 11970733Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for analyzing nucleic acid sequences. The method can comprise determining, by a computer system, a base trace by trimming a Sanger sequencing trace of a plurality of nucleic acid molecules from a sample based on a first target sequence and a second target sequence. Each of the first and second target sequences can be in the plurality of nucleic acid molecules or can be in the complement of sequence of the plurality of nucleic acid molecules.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2019Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Synthego CorporationInventors: Timothy Hsiau, Richard Stoner, Travis Maures, David Conant
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Patent number: 11970734Abstract: A composition includes a nanopore including first and second sides and an aperture, nucleotides each including an elongated tag, and a first polynucleotide that is complementary to a second polynucleotide. A polymerase can be disposed adjacent to the first side of the nanopore and configured to add nucleotides to the first polynucleotide based on a sequence of the second polynucleotide. A permanent tether can include a head region anchored to the polymerase, a tail region, and an elongated body disposed therebetween that occurs in the aperture of the nanopore. A first moiety can be disposed on the elongated body that binds to the elongated tag of a first nucleotide upon which the polymerase is acting. A reporter region can be disposed on the elongated body that indicates when the first nucleotide is complementary or is not complementary to a next nucleotide in the sequence of the second polynucleotide.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2020Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Illumina, Inc.Inventors: Kevin L Gunderson, Jeffrey G. Mandell
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Patent number: 11970735Abstract: Disclosed herein, inter alia, are compounds, compositions, and methods of use thereof for sequencing a nucleic acid.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2020Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Singular Genomics Systems, Inc.Inventors: Ronald Graham, Olga Adelfinskaya, Megha Cila, Rodrigo Rodriguez
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Patent number: 11970736Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a next generation DNA sequencing method and use for accurate and massively parallel quantification of one or more nucleic acid targets, for example in large volumes of unpurified sample material. More particularly, the disclosed embodiments is related to a method and a kit comprising probes for detecting and quantifying genetic targets in complex samples. The disclosed embodiments includes two target-specific nucleic acid probes per genetic target, a barcode loop oligo and a bridge oligo or bridge oligo complex.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Genomill Health OyInventors: Juha-Pekka Pursiheimo, Tatu Hirvonen, Anttoni Korkiakoski, Manu Tamminen
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Patent number: 11970737Abstract: Compositions, methods and kits are disclosed for high-sensitivity single molecule digital counting by the stochastic labeling of a collection of identical molecules by attachment of a diverse set of labels. Each copy of a molecule randomly chooses from a non-depleting reservoir of diverse labels. Detection may be by a variety of methods including hybridization based or sequencing. Molecules that would otherwise be identical in information content can be labeled to create a separately detectable product that is unique or approximately unique in a collection. This stochastic transformation relaxes the problem of counting molecules from one of locating and identifying identical molecules to a series of binary digital questions detecting whether preprogrammed labels are present. The methods may be used, for example, to estimate the number of separate molecules of a given type or types within a sample.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2019Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Becton, Dickinson and CompanyInventors: Stephen P. A. Fodor, Glenn K. Fu
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Patent number: 11970738Abstract: Devices and methods that can detect and control an individual polymer in a mixture is acted upon by another compound, for example, an enzyme, in a nanopore are provided. The devices and methods also determine (˜>50 Hz) the nucleotide base sequence of a polynucleotide under feedback control or using signals generated by the interactions between the polynucleotide and the nanopore. The invention is of particular use in the fields of molecular biology, structural biology, cell biology, molecular switches, molecular circuits, and molecular computational devices, and the manufacture thereof.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2020Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: The Regents of the University of CaliforniaInventors: Mark A. Akeson, David W. Deamer, William B. Dunbar, Roger Jinteh Arrigo Chen, Noah A. Wilson
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Patent number: 11970739Abstract: Provided herein are methods, compositions, and kits for preparing biological samples for multiplex spatial gene expression and proteomic analysis, such as determining a location of a nucleic acid analyte and a protein analyte in a biological sample.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2023Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: 10x Genomics, Inc.Inventors: Jennifer Chew, Joseph Francis Shuga, Patrick Roelli, Denise Cheung, Alexander Hermes, Yifeng Yin, Naishitha Anaparthy, Ryo Hatori, Marlon Stoeckius, Rapolas Spalinskas, Anna-Maria Katsori, Cedric Uytingco, Mesruh Turkekul, David Sukovich, Christina Galonska, Aleksandra Jurek, Octavian Marian Bloju
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Patent number: 11970740Abstract: Next Generation DNA sequencing promises to revolutionize clinical medicine and basic research. However, while this technology has the capacity to generate hundreds of billions of nucleotides of DNA sequence in a single experiment, the error rate of approximately 1% results in hundreds of millions of sequencing mistakes. These scattered errors can be tolerated in some applications but become extremely problematic when “deep sequencing” genetically heterogeneous mixtures, such as tumors or mixed microbial populations. To overcome limitations in sequencing accuracy, a method Duplex Consensus Sequencing (DCS) is provided. This approach greatly reduces errors by independently tagging and sequencing each of the two strands of a DNA duplex. As the two strands are complementary, true mutations are found at the same position in both strands. In contrast, PCR or sequencing errors will result in errors in only one strand.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON THROUGH ITS CENTER FOR COMMERCIALIZATIONInventors: Jesse Salk, Lawrence A. Loeb, Michael Schmitt
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Patent number: 11970741Abstract: A sex-determination method for a dioecious plant includes obtaining a sample of a dioecious plant and determining a presence or absence of SEQ ID NO: 2 in the sample. The presence of SEQ ID NO: 2 in the sample is indicative that the sample is from a male dioecious plant. Using the sex determination method for a dioecious plant, the sex of dioecious plants may even be determined when the dioecious plants are still young, i.e., when they are seedlings.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2023Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: KING FAISAL UNIVERSITYInventors: Mohei Eldin Soliman Mohammed, Heba Allah A. Mohasseb, Mohammed M. BA Abdullah, Hany S. Elbarbary
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Patent number: 11970742Abstract: Methods are provided for diagnosing pregnancy-associated disorders, determining allelic ratios, determining maternal or fetal contributions to circulating transcripts, and/or identifying maternal or fetal markers using a sample from a pregnant female subject. Also provided is use of a gene for diagnosing a pregnancy-associated disorder in a pregnant female subject.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2019Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: The Chinese University of Hong KongInventors: Yuk-Ming Dennis Lo, Rossa Wai Kwun Chiu, Kwan Chee Chan, Peiyong Jiang, Bo Yin Tsui
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Patent number: 11970743Abstract: Gene expression profiling in patients with mCRPC identifying genes that predict overall survival in response to treatment with sipuleucel-T, the method comprising the steps of (a) determining a gene expression level of a first biomarker; (b) determining a gene expression level of at least one additional biomarker different from the first biomarker; and (c) transforming the expression level of the first biomarker and the at least one additional biomarker into a first score corresponding to a probability of overall survival in response to treatment with sipuleucel-T.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2019Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Dendreon Pharmaceuticals LLCInventors: James B. Trager, Nadeem A. Sheikh, Debraj GuhaThakurta, Harini Kandadi, Li-Qun Fan
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Patent number: 11970744Abstract: The present invention relates to the methods and products for detection of colorectal cancer. Additionally, the present invention relates to methods and products for determining the probability, risk or incidence of colorectal cancer and of colorectal cancer metastasis. The products and methods of the present invention include detecting the level of expression of COL10A1 or MMP11, in combination, from samples, including tissue samples, from humans who currently have been diagnosed with cancer or who were previously diagnosed with cancer and those who are thought to have cancer and are undergoing diagnosis.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc.Inventors: Michael Stürzl, Roland S. Croner, Andreas Konrad
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Patent number: 11970745Abstract: The invention relates to, among others, a method for assessing a prognosis of a patient with a malignant disease and/or for predicting the response of a patient with a malignant disease to immunotherapy. For this purpose, a DNA methylation analysis is carried out on at least one immunoregulatory gene of cells of the malignant disease and/or T lymphocytes which interact with the cells of the malignant disease, said gene coding for an immune checkpoint selected from B7 proteins and the receptors thereof, MHC-peptide complex-binding co-receptors, the members of the tumor necrosis factor receptor superfamily TNFRSF9, CD40, TNFRSF4, TNFRSF18, and CD27, the members of the immunoglobulin superfamily TIGIT, BTLA, HAVCR2, BTNL2 and CD48, and the andenosine-binding adenosine 2A receptor.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Inventor: Dimo Dietrich
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Patent number: 11970746Abstract: A method of processing a fecal sample from a human subject comprising combining a first portion of a collected fecal sample with a stabilizing buffer, combining a second portion of the sample with a solution that prevents denaturation or degradation of blood proteins found in a fecal sample. Embodiments comprise testing nucleic acid extracted from the first portion of the fecal sample for an amount of a human nucleic acid, and testing the second portion of the fecal sample for the presence of human blood.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2023Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Exact Sciences CorporationInventor: Joost Louwagie
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Patent number: 11970747Abstract: Disclosed in the present invention are a primer-probe combination and a kit for vaginal microecosystem detection, wherein the primer-probe combination comprises primers and probes for target gene detection against Lactobacillus crispatus (LC), Lactobacillus gasseri (LG), Lactobacillus jensenii (LJ), Lactobacillus iners (LI), Gardnerella vaginalis (GV), Candida albicans (CA) and Trichomonas vaginalis (TV), and the probes are used for melting curve analysis. The kit comprises the primer-probe combination. The combination of specific primers and probes enables effective amplification of specific target genes of the above different microorganisms and melting curve analysis performed on the amplified products thereof, making detection of the above seven microorganisms in a single tube possible, thus achieving the advantages of high specificity, short time consuming, high sensitivity, comprehensive coverage of detection sites, etc.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2023Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: BEIJING ORIGIN-POLY BIO-TEC CO., LTD.Inventors: Linhai Wang, Pei Liu
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Patent number: 11970748Abstract: A process to decarburize steel can include contacting molten iron-containing material with a carbon dioxide in an electric arc furnace, a ladle furnace, or a vacuum degassing unit, or a combination thereof to decarburize at least a portion of the molten iron-containing material. The molten iron-containing material is preferably molten iron oxide.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2020Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: SABIC GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES B.V.Inventor: Mansour Al-Harbi
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Patent number: 11970749Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing a hot rolled steel sheet having excellent formability and fatigue properties, including: preparing a slab including, by weight %, 0.3 to 0.8% of carbon C, 13 to 25% of manganese (Mn), 0.1 to 1.0% of vanadium (V), 0.005 to 2.0% of silicon (Si), 0.01 to 2.5% of aluminum (Al), 0.03% or less of phosphorus (P), 0.03% or less of sulfur (S), 0.04% or less (excluding 0%) of nitrogen (N), and a remainder of iron (Fe) and inevitable impurities; heating the slab to 1050 to 1250° C.; finish rolling, the slab heated in the heating, at a temperature of not lower than a recrystallization temperature of a region having an average V concentration and not higher than a recrystallization temperature of a region having twice the average V concentration, to obtain a hot rolled steel sheet; and coiling the hot-rolled steel sheet at 50 to 700° C.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2023Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: POSCO CO., LTDInventors: Tae-Jin Song, Jeong-Eun Kim, Chang-Sik Choi
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Non-oriented electrical steel sheet and method for manufacturing non-oriented electrical steel sheet
Patent number: 11970750Abstract: There is provided a non-oriented electrical steel sheet in which, in a cross section of a base material in a sheet thickness direction, the number density N2-5 of precipitates with an equivalent circle diameter of 50 to 500 nm present in a range of 2.0 to 5.0 ?m from the surface of the base material in the sheet thickness direction is 0.30 pieces/?m2 or less, and the relationship between the number density N2-5 and the number density N0-2 of precipitates with an equivalent circle diameter of 50 to 500 nm present in a range from the surface of the base material to 2.0 ?m satisfies Formula (1): (N2-5)/(N0-2)?0.5??Formula (1).Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Nobusato Morishige, Takeru Ichie, Masato Yasuda, Masahide Urago, Fuminobu Murakami, Daichi Hamada, Atsushi Shibayama, Kazumi Mizukami, Daisuke Itabashi -
Patent number: 11970751Abstract: The grain-oriented electrical steel sheet according to the present embodiment is a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet having a base steel sheet (1), an intermediate layer (4) disposed to be in contact with the base steel sheet (1), and an insulation coating (3) disposed to be in contact with the intermediate layer (4). The grain-oriented electrical steel sheet according to the present embodiment includes a surface of the base steel sheet (1) having a strain region (D) which extends in a direction intersecting a rolling direction of the base steel sheet (1), and a crystalline phosphorus oxide M2P4O13 present in the insulation coating (3) on the strain region (D) in a cross-sectional view of a surface parallel to the rolling direction and a sheet thickness direction of the base steel sheet (1). (M means at least one or both of Fe and Cr.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2020Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshiyuki Ushigami, Shinji Yamamoto, Hideyuki Hamamura, Takashi Kataoka, Shunsuke Okumura
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Patent number: 11970752Abstract: Provided are: a steel sheet having a high strength and excellent hydrogen embrittlement resistance; and a method of producing the same. The steel sheet has prescribed chemical composition and structure, in which a standard deviation ? of Mn concentration satisfies ??0.15 Mnave (wherein, Mnave represents an average Mn concentration) and a region with a Mn concentration of higher than (Mnave+1.3?) has a circle-equivalent diameter of less than 10.0 ?m. The method of producing the steel sheet includes: the hot rolling step that includes finish rolling a slab having a prescribed chemical composition under prescribed conditions; the step of coiling the thus obtained hot-rolled steel sheet at a coiling temperature of 450 to 700° C.; and the step of cold rolling the hot-rolled steel sheet and subsequently annealing this steel sheet at 800 to 900° C.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2020Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Kengo Takeda, Hiroyuki Kawata, Takafumi Yokoyama, Katsuya Nakano
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Patent number: 11970753Abstract: A method for producing an ultra-high-strength hot-rolled structural steel includes producing a steel alloy with a carbon content not greater than 0.2%, avoiding a diffusive transformation of the austenite by achieving a transformation delay through the addition of manganese, chromium, and boron, and casting the steel alloy. The cast steel alloy is heated and hot rolled to form a steel strip which is then immediately hardened and mechanically straightened to produce mobile dislocations, wherein the boron, manganese and chromium delay diffusive transformation from an austenite structure to achieve formation of a martensite structure during the hardening. The steel strip is then annealed at a temperature between 100 and 200° C.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2019Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: voestalpine Stahl GmbHInventors: Markus Sonnleitner, Martin Klein, Gerhard Hubmer, Helmut Spindler
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Patent number: 11970754Abstract: A method and apparatus to reclaim metals from scrap material such as automobile shredder residue (ASR) that, after separating out light density components, separates out friable material such as rock and glass by crushing and screening operations to generate a high metal content product.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: BEST PROCESS SOLUTIONS, INC.Inventor: Timothy F. Conway
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Patent number: 11970755Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an application of cuprous sulfide in a recovery of Au (III) from aqueous solutions, which relates to the fields of hydrometallurgy and precious metal recovery. The method of the present disclosure uses cuprous sulfide nanoparticles to recover Au (III) from aqueous solution, and undergoes gold adsorption under mechanical stirring. The method described in the present disclosure can efficiently recover Au (III) from aqueous solutions, has good recovery effects on Au (III) from acidic waste liquid, and has the advantages of energy conservation, environmental protection, and low cost.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2023Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Kunming University of Science and TechnologyInventors: Yunlong Chen, Jin Wu, Futing Zi, Xianzhi Hu, Fengru Meng, Yongmao Zeng, Zhongying Wang, Yihuai Yang