US Patent Issued to Innate Immunity on May 20 for "Compositions and methods for protecting hosts against pathogen infections" (New Mexico Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,183, issued on May 20, was assigned to Innate Immunity LLC (Santa Fe, N.M.).

"Compositions and methods for protecting hosts against pathogen infections" was invented by Goutam Gupta (Santa Fe, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A chimeric protein and method of creating genetically altered plant and parts thereof with a chimeric protein wherein the chimeric protein comprises a recognition element and a lysis element connected by a linker wherein the recognition element binds to a pathogen and the lysis element lyses the pathogen and wherein the recognition element is derived from a first protein and the lysis element is derived from ...