ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,214,035, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to SANOFI PASTEUR Ltd. (Toronto) and SANOFI PASTEUR INC. (Swiftwater, Pa.).

"Herpesvirus compositions and related methods" was invented by Stephen Anderson (Cambridge, Mass.), Simon Delagrave (Cambridge, Mass.), John Hamberger (Milford, N.H.), Qinglian Li (Aurora, Canada), Sophia Mundle (Cambridge, Mass.) and Nausheen Rahman (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to liquid and dried compositions comprising a live, attenuated or genetically modified herpesvirus and methods of preparing such compositions, in one aspect, the composition comprises at least two or more pha...