MUMBAI, India, April 25 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202527028670 A) filed by Freie Universitt, Berlin, on March 26, for 'a live attenuated sars-cov-2 and a vaccine made thereof.'

Inventor(s) include Trimpert, Jakob; Kunec, Dusan; and Osterrieder, Nikolaus.

The application for the patent was published on April 25, under issue no. 17/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The invention relates to a polynucleotide encoding a) severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) spike protein; and/or b) at least one non-structural SARS-CoV-2 protein selected from the group consisting of non-structural protein 7, non-structural protein 8, non-structural prot...