US Patent Issued to Ohio State Innovation Foundation on Nov. 25 for "Sterols as novel immunomodulatory agents and their use as vaccine adjuvants" (Ohio, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,671, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Ohio State Innovation Foundation (Columbus, Ohio).

"Sterols as novel immunomodulatory agents and their use as vaccine adjuvants" was invented by Abhay R. Satoskar (Upper Arlington, Ohio), James R. Fuchs (Columbus, Ohio), Alan Douglas Kinghorn (Columbus, Ohio), Li Pan (Rockton, Ill.), Eric Bachelder (Dublin, Ohio) and Narasimham L. Parinandi (Upper Arlington, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are methods of using immunomodulatory sterols as vaccine adjuvants. Accordingly, certain embodiments relates to pharmaceutical compositions containing at least one antigen and at least on...