US Patent Issued to AC Immune on May 6 for "Method for vaccination against a self-antigen in a human patient" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,553, issued on May 6, was assigned to AC Immune SA (Lausanne, Switzerland).

"Method for vaccination against a self-antigen in a human patient" was invented by Gergana Galabova (Vienna), Sabine Schmidhuber (Vienna), Achim Schneeberger (Vienna), Arne Von Bonin (Vienna), Dorian Winter (Vienna) and Jana Zimmermann (Vienna).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method for vaccination against a self-antigen in a human patient wherein a dose with an effective amount of a self-antigen is administered to the patient to elicit a primary immune response, characterised in that the patient is subjected to a boost administration of said sel...