ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,361, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Inovio Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Plymouth Meeting, Pa.).
"Tolerable and minimally invasive skin electroporation device" was invented by Kate Broderick (San Diego), Jay McCoy (Temecula, Calif.), Stephen V. Kemmerrer (San Diego), Feng Lin (San Diego) and Rune Kjeken (Oslo, Norway).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A novel electroporation device for the delivery of vaccines that is both effective in generating a protective immune response and tolerable delivery to a subject (or near painless); and also methods of using same device to vaccinate a subject against a variety of infectious diseases and types of ...