US Patent Issued to AJOU UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION on June 17 for "Method of preparing mouse model of herpes" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,137, issued on June 17, was assigned to AJOU UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method of preparing mouse model of herpes" was invented by Seonghyang Sohn (Suwon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of preparing a mouse model of herpes using a herpes simplex virus and hydrocortisone, and a mouse model of herpes prepared using the method are disclosed. The method makes it possible to obtain an animal model in which symptoms of herpes clearly appear. The obtained animal model can be widely used in the development of therapeutic agents for herpes simplex virus infection. A use o...