US Patent Issued to ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI on July 22 for "Mosaic influenza virus hemagglutinin polypeptides and uses thereof" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,746, issued on July 22, was assigned to ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI (New York).

"Mosaic influenza virus hemagglutinin polypeptides and uses thereof" was invented by Adolfo Garcia-Sastre (New York), Peter Palese (New York), Florian Krammer (New York), Felix Brocker (Berlin) and Weina Sun (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, provided herein is a mosaic influenza virus hemagglutinin (HA) polypeptide comprising an influenza A virus HA ectodomain of an influenza A virus strain HA, wherein the HA ectodomain comprises an HA stem domain of the influenza A virus strain HA and an HA globular head domain of the in...