US Patent Issued to Pi-Hui Liang on Sept. 23 for "Saponin conjugate and vaccine or pharmaceutical composition comprising the same" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,952, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Pi-Hui Liang (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Saponin conjugate and vaccine or pharmaceutical composition comprising the same" was invented by Pi-Hui Liang (Taipei, Taiwan), Yen-Hsun Lai (Taipei, Taiwan), Chun-Kai Chang (Taipei, Taiwan) and Chee-Wai Chaw (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed to novel chemical compounds in which a lipophilic moiety such as a lipid, fatty acid, polyethylene glycol or terpene is covalently attached to a non-acylated or desacylated triterpene saponin via a carboxyl group present on the 3-O-glucuronic acid of the triterpene saponin. Th...