US Patent Issued to Board of Regents, The University of Texas System on June 3 for "Attenuating viral mutations in protein genes" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,439, issued on June 3, was assigned to Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas).

"Attenuating viral mutations in protein genes" was invented by Jaclyn Kaiser (Galveston, Texas), Tian Wang (Galveston, Texas), Alan Barrett (Galveston, Texas) and Kassandra Carpio (Galveston, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments relate to attenuated flaviviruses for use in vaccines and immunogenic compositions. Embodiments include methods for treating or preventing one or more conditions, for example flavivirus infection, using an attenuated flavivirus. In some embodiments, the provided methods and compositions involve ...