US Patent Issued to THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY on Aug. 12 for "Shigella-based minimal plasmid recombinant invasion construct" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,051, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY (Fort Detrick, Md.).

"Shigella-based minimal plasmid recombinant invasion construct" was invented by Malabi M. Venkatesan (Bethesda, Md.), Lakshmi Chandrasekaran (Gaithersburg, Md.) and Akamol E. Suvarnapunya (Rockville, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Recombinant Shigella minimal invasion plasmid constructs pRISM and pRISM-G and a method of inducing an immune response to Shigella in a subject, the method comprising administering the composition to the subject in an amount sufficient to induce an immune response ...