ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,058, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to ARAMIS BIOTECHNOLOGIES INC. (Quebec, Canada).
"Influenza virus-like particle production in plants" was invented by Manon Couture (St-Augustin-de-Desmaures, Canada), Marc-Andre D'Aoust (Quebec, Canada) and Louis-Philippe Vezina (Neuville, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of producing a virus like particle (VLP) in a plant comprising modified H3 hemagglutinin is provided. The method comprises introducing a nucleic acid comprising a regulatory region active in the plant and operatively linked to a nucleotide sequence encoding a modified influenza hemagglutinin (HA) protein into the p...