US Patent Issued to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center on May 27 for "Recombinant adenoviruses and uses thereof" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,382, issued on May 27, was assigned to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc. (Boston).

"Recombinant adenoviruses and uses thereof" was invented by Dan H. Barouch (Newton, Mass.), Peter Abbink (Winthrop, Mass.), Mark Justin Iampietro (Boston) and Menzo J. E. Havenga (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Featured are recombinant adenoviruses and vectors thereof. In particular, the adenoviruses are simian (rhesus) adenoviruses having a low seroprevalence and high immunogenicity (when expressing, e.g., an antigenic polypeptide) relative to other adenoviruses and vectors thereof. Also featured are methods for producing the adenovirus...