ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,164, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to GLAXOSMITHKLINE BIOLOGICALS SA (Rixensart, Belgium).
"Meningococcus vaccines" was invented by Alessia Biolchi (Siena, Italy), Brunella Brunelli (Siena, Italy), Marzia Monica Giuliani (Siena, Italy) and Vega Masignani (Siena, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Meningococcal vaccines can be improved by including multiple alleles or variants of fHbp, in order to provide broader coverage of the diversity which is known for this protein, and/or by reducing the quantity of an OMV component in each dose."
The patent was filed on June 6, 2023, under Application No. 18/329,701.
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