US Patent Issued to The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services, Institute for Research in Biomedicine on Feb. 25 for "Recombinant metapneumovirus f proteins and their use" (American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,233,124, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Bethesda, Md.) and Institute for Research in Biomedicine (Bellinzona, Switzerland).

"Recombinant metapneumovirus f proteins and their use" was invented by Peter Kwong (Washington), Michael Gordon Joyce (Washington), Baoshan Zhang (Bethesda, Md.), Yongping Yang (Potomac, Md.), Peter Collins (Kensington, Md.), Ursula Buchholz (Silver Spring, Md.), Davide Corti (Bellinzona, Switzerland), Antonio Lanzavecchia (Bellinzona, Switzerland) and Guillaume Stewart-Jones (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trad...