US Patent Issued to Children's Medical Center on July 29 for "Immunogens and methods for discovery and screening thereof" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,246, issued on July 29, was assigned to Children's Medical Center Corp. (Boston).

"Immunogens and methods for discovery and screening thereof" was invented by Richard Malley (Beverly, Mass.), Yingjie Lu (West Roxbury, Mass.) and Kristin L. Moffitt (Woburn, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application is generally directed to methods for identifying immunogens from organisms and pathogens, and in particular for identifying immunogens which when administered as vaccines elicit a cellular and/or humoral immune response. The present application is also directed to pneumococcal T-cell immunogens, and vaccine compositions c...