ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,604, issued on July 8, was assigned to SHANXI JINBO BIO-PHARMACEUTICAL Co. LTD. (Shanxi, China) and FUDAN UNIVERSITY (Shanghai).

"Fusion protein and use thereof" was invented by Lu Lu (Shanghai), Shibo Jiang (Shanghai), Zezhong Liu (Shanghai), Jie Zhou (Shanghai), Qian Wang (Shanghai), Xia Yang (Shanxi, China) and Zhenrui He (Shanxi, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a fusion protein and use thereof. Provided is a fusion protein, comprising a trimerization block and an immunogenic block which are connected by a linker, wherein the trimerization block comprises one or more of repeat units set forth in SEQ ID NO. 1; the ...