US Patent Issued to INVISISHIELD TECHNOLOGIES on Nov. 4 for "Chimeric protein comprising an anti-influenza virus antibody moiety and a mucoadhesive peptide fragment for preventing or treating influenza infections" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,988, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to INVISISHIELD TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Emeryville, Calif.).

"Chimeric protein comprising an anti-influenza virus antibody moiety and a mucoadhesive peptide fragment for preventing or treating influenza infections" was invented by Cheng Liu (Orinda, Calif.), Ziyou Cui (Seattle), Hongbing Zhang (Moraga, Calif.), Zhiyuan Yang (Richmond, Calif.), Guangyan Xiong (Emeryville, Calif.), Lu Jin (Emeryville, Calif.), Jinyun Chen (Emeryville, Calif.), Motao Liu (Emeryville, Calif.) and Warner Greene (Hillsborough, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application provides chimeric proteins comprising a...