ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,175, issued on July 15, was assigned to CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY (Cleveland).
"Viral nanoparticle multimers" was invented by Nicole F. Steinmetz (Cleveland) and Amy M. Wen (Cleveland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Virus particle multimers and methods of making and using such virus particle multimer are described. Virus particle multimers are constructed by preparing a plurality of asymmetrically functionalized virus particles bearing one or more functional groups and contacting the asymmetrically functionalized virus particles with a first linker molecule that reacts with the functional groups to form a virus particle multimer...