US Patent Issued to Board of Regents, The University of Texas System on July 15 for "DNA plasmid-launched live-attanuated vaccines for plus-sense singel stranded RNA" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,682, issued on July 15, was assigned to Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas).

"DNA plasmid-launched live-attanuated vaccines for plus-sense singel stranded RNA" was invented by Jing Zou (Galveston, Texas), Xuping Xie (Galveston, Texas) and Pei-Yong Shi (Galveston, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention generally relates to the development of immunogenic compositions comprising a DNA copy of at least one live attenuated plus-sense single-stranded RNA virus genome, such as the genome of a live-attenuated Zika vims (ZIKV), Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) or yellow fever vims (YFV). The immunogen...