MUMBAI, India, May 9 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517037325 A) filed by MSD International Business Gmbh, Lucerne, Switzerland, on April 17, for 'stabilized pre-fusion piv3 f proteins.'

Inventor(s) include Langedijk, Johannes, Petrus, Maria; and Bakkers, Mark, Johannes, Gerardus.

The application for the patent was published on May 9, under issue no. 19/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention relates to stabilized pre-fusion human parainfluenza virus 3 (HPIV3) F protein, and fragments thereof. The invention also relates to nucleic acid molecules encoding such proteins and fragments, and to the use of the proteins, fragments and nucleic acid...