ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,031, issued on June 24, was assigned to CureVac SE (Tubingen, Germany).

"Combination vaccine" was invented by Karl-Josef Kallen (Konigsdorf, Germany), Thomas Kramps (Tubingen, Germany), Margit Schnee (Constance, Germany) and Daniel Voss (Tubingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a vaccine, especially a combination vaccine providing at least a first and a second antigenic function, the combination vaccine comprising at least one RNA encoding at least one or more proteins or fragments, variants or derivatives of proteins awarding antigenic function, wherein the first antigenic function being a Fu...