US Patent Issued to The Medical College of Wisconsin, Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation on July 1 for "COVID-19 vaccine" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,635, issued on July 1, was assigned to The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc. (Milwaukee) and Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wis.).

"COVID-19 vaccine" was invented by Joseph T. Barbieri (New Berlin, Wis.), Amanda Przedpelski (Milwaukee), Eric A. Johnson (Madison, Wis.), Sabine Pellett (Madison, Wis.) and William H. Tepp (Stoughton, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are antigenic peptides comprising the SARS-COV-2 spike protein receptor binding domain (CRBD) polypeptide or portions thereof, linked to a non-catalytic, non-toxic tetanus toxin variant (i.e., a modified tetanus toxin or "MTT") and vaccine c...