US Patent Issued to Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center on March 4 for "Immunogen for broad-spectrum influenza vaccine and application thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,699, issued on March 4, was assigned to Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center (Shanghai).

"Immunogen for broad-spectrum influenza vaccine and application thereof" was invented by Jianqing Xu (Shanghai), Xiaoyan Zhang (Shanghai) and Xinci Xie (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a novel influenza immunogen with broad-spectrum anti-influenza virus effect and the immunization method thereof. The present disclosure provides a novel anti-influenza immunogen whose sequence comprises the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID No: 1 and SEQ ID No: 2, or an immunogenic fragment thereof, or a combination the...