US Patent Issued to Regents of the University of Minnesota on July 8 for "Adenovirus library and methods" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,797, issued on July 8, was assigned to Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis).

"Adenovirus library and methods" was invented by Masato Yamamoto (Minneapolis) and Yoshiaki Miura (Roseville, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a method that generally includes infecting a host cell with a rescue adenovirus, wherein the rescue adenovirus genome comprises a loxP site and encodes at least one marker, and wherein the host cell comprises a library of polynucleotides that complement the adenovirus genome marker and encode a detectable polypeptide; incubating the infected host cell under conditions effective t...