ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,553, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, Calif.).
"Multivalent carriers and related vaccine compositions" was invented by Alexander A. Cohen (Pasadena, Calif.) and Pamela J. Bjorkman (Altadena, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein include multivalent carriers comprising a plurality of heterologous coronavirus proteins antigens derived from different coronaviruses. The multivalent carriers herein described can elicit heterologous binding and neutralization properties against coronoviruses that differ from the coronoviruses from which the coronavirus antigens are derived to...