US Patent Issued to Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Universite Paris-Saclay on April 1 for "Mutated glycoprotein of vesicular stomatitis virus" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,264,180, issued on April 1, was assigned to Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) (Paris) and Universite Paris-Saclay (Gif sur Yvette, France).

"Mutated glycoprotein of vesicular stomatitis virus" was invented by Aurelie Albertini (Gometz le Chatel, France), Yves Gaudin (Paris), Helene Raux (Antony, France), Laura Belot (Maurepas, France) and Jovan Nikolic (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an isolated non-naturally occurring protein comprising the amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NO: 1, and wherein the amino acid in position 8, 47, 209 and/or 354 is substituted by any amino acid differ...