US Patent Issued to GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY on Aug. 19 for "Compositions, methods and uses for eliciting an immune response" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,517, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY (Nathan, Australia).

"Compositions, methods and uses for eliciting an immune response" was invented by Freda E.-C. Jen (Nathan, Australia), Kate Seib (Nathan, Australia), Evgeny Semchenko (Nathan, Australia) and Michael Jennings (Nathan, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention relates generally to polynucleotides, polypeptides, compositions, methods and uses for eliciting an immune response to Neisseria, methods for immunizing a subject against a Neisseria infection, and methods for preventing and/or treating a Neisseria infection in a subject. More particula...