US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Oct. 14 for "Vaccination using herpesvirus genomes in nucleic acid form" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,554, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Vaccination using herpesvirus genomes in nucleic acid form" was invented by Dennis Hartigan-O'Connor (Davis, Calif.), Peter Barry (Davis, Calif.), Jesse Deere (Davis, Calif.) and Joseph Dutra (Davis, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides compositions and methods for inducing immune responses in subjects using HV-based vectors that can be grown in single celled organisms and administered in their nucleic acid form."

The patent was filed on Oct. 26, 2021, under Application No. 17/510,969.

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