US Patent Issued to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology, Inovio Pharmaceuticals on March 4 for "Filovirus consensus antigens, nucleic acid constructs and vaccines made therefrom, and methods of using same" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,872, issued on March 4, was assigned to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia), The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (Plymouth Meeting, Pa.) and Inovio Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Plymouth Meeting, Pa.).

"Filovirus consensus antigens, nucleic acid constructs and vaccines made therefrom, and methods of using same" was invented by David B. Weiner (Merion, Pa.), Ami Patel (Philadelphia) and Jian Yan (Wallingford, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Nucleic acid molecules and compositions comprising one or more nucleic acid sequences that encode a consensus Ebolavirus glycoproteinimmunogens are disclosed. The codin...