ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,298, issued on March 25, was assigned to ACADEMIA SINICA (Taipei, Taiwan).
"Coronavirus vaccine" was invented by Che Ma (New Taipei, Taiwan), Chi-Huey Wong (Taipei, Taiwan) and Han-Yi Huang (Taoyuan, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a glycoengineered SARS-CoV-2 spike protein which is capable of eliciting an enhanced immune response relative to a native spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 and its variants. The glycoengineered spike protein exposes the glycosylation sites and at the same time preserves the tertiary structure of the spike protein. The present disclosure therefore provides improved immunogen...