US Patent Issued to Affinivax on Aug. 5 for "Multivalent pneumococcal vaccines" (Massachusetts, Louisiana, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,140, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Affinivax Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Multivalent pneumococcal vaccines" was invented by Gilles R. Besin (Brookline, Mass.), Teresa J. Broering (Brookline, Mass.), Heidi Burke (Saugus, Mass.), Yingjie Lu (West Roxbury, Mass.), Richard Malley (Beverly, Mass.), Janet E. McCombs (New Orleans), Velupillai Puvanesarajah (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Shite Sebastian (Shrewsbury, Mass.), Onkar Sharma (Chestnut Hill, Mass.), Taylor C. Stevenson (Cambridge, Mass.), Gang Yao (Belmont, Mass.) and Fan Zhang (West Roxbury, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies for the prevention and/or treatment of pneumococ...