US Patent Issued to ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey on Aug. 19 for "Recombinant Newcastle disease viruses and uses thereof for the prevention of RSV disease or human metapneumovirus disease" (New Jersey, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,957, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI (New York) and Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, N.J.).

"Recombinant Newcastle disease viruses and uses thereof for the prevention of RSV disease or human metapneumovirus disease" was invented by Joan E. Durbin (Sergeantsville, N.J.), Russell K. Durbin (Sergeantsville, N.J.), Adolfo Garcia-Sastre (New York), Ignacio Mena (New York) and Peter Palese (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are recombinant Newcastle disease viruses ("NDVs") comprising a packaged genome, wherein the packaged genome comprises a trans...