ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,197, issued on May 20, was assigned to Kao Corp. (Tokyo) and Shizuoka Prefectural University Corp. (Shizuoka, Japan).
"Proliferation method" was invented by Shintaro Onishi (Taito-ku, Japan), Takuya Mori (Utsunomiya, Japan), Takashi Suzuki (Shizuoka, Japan) and Yuuki Kurebayashi (Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method for efficiently proliferating an influenza virus serving as a material for vaccine in a host.A method for proliferating an influenza virus in a host, comprising a step of inhibiting transfer of Bax in a host cell to the inner mitochondrial membrane."
The patent was filed on Feb. 7, 2020, un...