ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,559, issued on May 20, was assigned to CITY OF HOPE (Duarte, Calif.).

"Multivalent Epstein-Barr virus-like particles and uses thereof" was invented by Javier Gordon Ogembo (San Dimas, Calif.), Lorraine Zvichapera Mutsvunguma (Duarte, Calif.) and Felix Wussow (Duarte, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are vaccine compositions comprising a VLP comprising two or more EBV envelope glycoproteins and one or more T cell antigens and methods of preventing or treating EBV infections using the vaccine compositions. Also disclosed is an expression system or a single expression vector for co-expressing two or more EBV envelope glyc...