US Patent Issued to NDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION on Oct. 7 for "Viral vaccines and methods of forming the same" (North Dakota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,317, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to NDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Fargo, N.D.).

"Viral vaccines and methods of forming the same" was invented by Sheela Ramamoorthy (Fargo, N.D.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein is a method for producing an inactivated virus including a) heating the virus to a temperature sufficient to disrupt the virus membrane; b) exposing the virus of step (a) to a nucleic acid degrading enzyme; and c) cooling the virus to a temperature sufficient to reestablish the integrity of the virus membrane. Also provided herein is a vaccine produced using the instant method."

The patent was filed on March 28, 20...