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US 12,347,337 · App. 17/516,156 · Granted Jul 1, 2025

Enhanced testing and characterization techniques for phototherapeutic light treatments

Inventors: David T. Emerson (Durham, NC); Nathan Stasko (Chapel Hill, NC); Jacob Kocher (Durham, NC); Adam Cockrell (Durham, NC)
Assignee: KNOW Bio, LLC
G09B23/286A61N5/06A61N2005/0658
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Patent No.
US 12,347,337
App. No.
17/516,156
Granted
Jul 1, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

Devices and methods for impinging light on tissue to induce one or more biological effects, and more particularly enhanced testing and characterization techniques for phototherapeutic light treatments are disclosed. Such testing and characterization techniques may be particularly useful in the evaluation and development of light-based treatments for various infectious diseases, including multiple variants of SARS-CoV-2. In particular aspects, testing and characterization techniques are related to the direct testing of differentiated tissue models of human airway epithelia that have been exposed to various pathogens. Phototherapeutic light treatments and corresponding treatment protocols for light are also described that not only inactivate SARS-COV-2 variants in cell-free suspensions, but also inhibit SARS-CoV-2 infections at multiple stages of infection in tissue models of human airway epithelia in a variant-agnostic manner.

Claims (28)

1. A method comprising:

administering a first dose of light to a surface of a human tissue model to induce a biological effect in the human tissue model after a virus stock in a first diluent is exposed to the surface of the human tissue model and after the virus stock and the first diluent have been removed from the human tissue model; and

determining an efficacy of the first dose of light in the human tissue model based on the biological effect that is induced in the human tissue model by correlating a first viral load in the human tissue model by quantifying a viral load in a first apical wash of the human tissue model, wherein the first apical wash comprises a second diluent that is a same solution as the first diluent.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the biological effect comprises at least one of inactivating microorganisms, inhibiting replication of microorganisms, upregulating a local immune response, stimulating enzymatic generation of nitric oxide to increase endogenous stores of nitric oxide, releasing nitric oxide from endogenous stores of nitric oxide, and inducing an anti-inflammatory effect.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein:

the human tissue model is exposed to the virus stock for a first time period; and

the first dose of light is administered at an end of a second time period from when the virus stock is exposed to the human tissue model.

4. The method of 3 , wherein the end of the second time period is in a range from 30 minutes to 90 minutes after an end of the first time period.

5. The method of claim 3 , wherein the first apical wash is completed at an end of a third time period from when the virus stock is exposed to the human tissue model.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising administering a second dose of light to the surface of the human tissue model after the first apical wash.

7. The method of claim 6 , further comprising:

correlating a second viral load in the human tissue model at an end of a fourth time period after the virus stock is exposed to the human tissue model by quantifying a viral load in a second apical wash of the human tissue model, wherein the second apical wash comprises a third diluent that is a same solution as the first diluent.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the human tissue model comprises a human airway epithelia model.

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein the virus stock comprises at least one of influenza and coronaviridae that is applied to the human airway epithelia model.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the first dose of light comprises a peak wavelength in a range from 400 nanometers (nm) to 450 nm that is irradiated on the surface of the human tissue model after the at least one of the influenza and the coronaviridae is removed.

11. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first diluent and the second diluent comprise minimum essential medium with a fetal bovine serum additive.

12. A method comprising:

administering a plurality of light doses to a surface of a human tissue model to induce a biological effect in the human tissue model after a virus stock in a first diluent is exposed to the surface of the human tissue model and after the virus stock and the first diluent have been removed from the human tissue model; and

determining an efficacy of the plurality of light doses in the human tissue model based on the biological effect that is induced in the human tissue model by correlating a viral load in the human tissue model at a plurality of time intervals by quantifying an amount of a viral load in a plurality of apical washes, wherein each apical wash of the plurality of apical washes is followed by administering at least one light dose of the plurality of light doses up until a last apical wash of the plurality of apical washes.

13. The method of claim 12 , wherein the biological effect comprises at least one of inactivating microorganisms, inhibiting replication of microorganisms, upregulating a local immune response, stimulating enzymatic generation of nitric oxide to increase endogenous stores of nitric oxide, releasing nitric oxide from endogenous stores of nitric oxide, and inducing an anti-inflammatory effect.

14. The method of claim 12 , wherein at least two light doses of the plurality of light doses are administered to the surface of the human tissue model before a first apical wash of the plurality of apical washes.

15. The method of claim 14 , wherein at least two additional light doses of the plurality of light doses are administered to the surface of the human tissue model after the first apical wash of the plurality of apical washes and before a second apical wash of the plurality of apical washes.

16. The method of claim 12 , wherein each apical wash of the plurality of apical washes is performed at successive 24-hour intervals after the virus stock is exposed to the human tissue model.

17. The method of claim 12 , wherein the plurality of apical washes comprise a solution that is the same as the first diluent.

18. The method of claim 12 , wherein a first apical wash of the plurality of apical washes is performed before any light does of the plurality of light doses are administered.

19. The method of claim 12 , wherein the human tissue model comprises a human airway epithelia model.

20. The method of claim 19 , wherein the virus stock comprises at least one of influenza and coronaviridae that is applied to the human airway epithelia model.

21. The method of claim 20 , wherein a first dose of light comprises a peak wavelength in a range from 400 nanometers (nm) to 450 nm that is irradiated on the surface of the human airway epithelia model after the at least one of the influenza and the coronaviridae is removed.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 9, 2023
From: EMERSON, DAVID T.; STASKO, NATHAN
To: KNOW BIO, LLC
Reel/Frame 062641/0771 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 20, 2022
From: KOCHER, JACOB; COCKRELL, ADAM
To: KNOW BIO, LLC
Reel/Frame 059647/0400 →
Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 63123631 · Dec 10, 2020
Related Publication 20220189342A1 · Jun 16, 2022
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