ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,971, issued on July 15, was assigned to The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund (New Orleans), The Boad of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas), The Scripps Resesrch Institute (La Jolla, Calif.) and Zalgen Labs LLC (Germantown, Md.).

"Arena virus monoclonal antibodies and uses" was invented by Luis M. Branco (Germantown, Md.), Robert F. Garry (New Orleans), James E. Robinson (New Orleans), Erica O. Saphire (La Jolla, Calif.), Kathryn M. Hastie (La Jolla, Calif.) and Thomas W. Geisbert (Albany, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are compositions comprising recombinant arenavirus monocl...