US Patent Issued to Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen Deutsches Forschungszentrum fur Gesundheit und Umwelt (GmbH) on Sept. 16 for "Means and methods for treating herpesvirus infection" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,989, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen Deutsches Forschungszentrum fur Gesundheit und Umwelt (GmbH) (Neuherberg, Germany).

"Means and methods for treating herpesvirus infection" was invented by Wolfgang Hammerschmidt (Munich), Reinhard Zeidler (Olching, Germany) and Dagmar Pich (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides herpesviruses, such as EBV, which lack at least one viral miRNA. Such herpesviruses lacking at least one viral miRNA are advantageously not capable of packaging their genome into the capsid, thereby producing HVLPs, which are substantially free of their herpesvir...