ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,766, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to ModernaTX Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"RSV RNA vaccines" was invented by Giuseppe Ciaramella (Sudbury, Mass.), Kapil Bahl (Medford, Mass.), Amy Espeseth (Chalfont, Pa.), Andrew J. Bett (Lansdale, Pa.), Pedro Cejas (Oreland, Pa.), Lan Zhang (Chalfont, Pa.) and Christine Shaw (Reading, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) ribonucleic acid (RNA) vaccines as well as methods of using the vaccines and compositions comprising the vaccines. The vaccine can be formulated in a lipid nanoparticle."

The patent was filed on Jan. 19, 2024, under Appli...