US Patent Issued on Feb. 25 for "Compositions and methods for multi-use suppression and acquisition of viruses" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,233,082, issued on Feb. 25.

"Compositions and methods for multi-use suppression and acquisition of viruses" was invented by Ben Alexander (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) has been available for nearly a decade. Patients can take a pill comprising of multiple antiviral agents that, if exposed to HIV, will prevent a permanent viral infection with an extremely high success rate. However, the use of PrEP antivirals has been linked to higher rates of STIs including HSV-1, HSV-2, Infectious Mononucleosis, chlamydia, gonorrhea, trichomanias, and syphilis. In particular, Herpes Simplex Viruses 1 and...