US Patent Issued to BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM on May 20 for "Prefusion-stabilized hMPV F proteins" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,930, issued on May 20, was assigned to BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM (Austin, Texas).

"Prefusion-stabilized hMPV F proteins" was invented by Jason McLellan (Austin, Texas), Ching-Lin Hsieh (Austin, Texas), Scott Rush (Austin, Texas) and Nianshuang Wang (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are engineered hMPV F proteins. In some aspects, the engineered F proteins exhibit enhanced conformational stability and/or antigenicity. Methods are also provided for use of the engineered F proteins as diagnostics, in screening platforms, and/or in vaccine compositions."

The patent was filed on July 22,...