US Patent Issued to GeoVax on March 11 for "Vaccinia viral vectors encoding chimeric virus like particles" (Georgia, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,214, issued on March 11, was assigned to GeoVax Inc. (Smyrna, Ga.).

"Vaccinia viral vectors encoding chimeric virus like particles" was invented by Harriet Robinson (Palo Alto, Calif.), Arban Domi (Atlanta), Michael Hellerstein (Marietta, Ga.), Farshad Guirakhoo (Atlanta) and Nathanael Paul McCurley (Decatur, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The compositions and methods are described for generating an immune response to an antigen. The compositions and methods described herein relate to a modified vaccinia Ankara (MVA) vector encoding one or more viral antigens as a fusion product with a viral glycoprotein and matrix protein for g...