US Patent Issued to Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research on March 25 for "Adenovirus vectors and methods for using adenovirus vectors" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,572, issued on March 25, was assigned to Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minn.).

"Adenovirus vectors and methods for using adenovirus vectors" was invented by Michael A. Barry (Rochester, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document provides adenovirus vectors and methods and materials related to using adenovirus vectors. For example, adenoviruses for delivering nucleic acid encoding one or more immunogens (e.g., one or more immunogens associated with a pathogen causing an infection) to cells within a mammal such that the mammal produces an effective immune response against the immunogen(s) are p...