US Patent Issued to The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services, The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine on Sept. 9 for "Antibodies and methods for the diagnosis and treatment of Epstein Barr virus infection" (Maryland, District Of Columbia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,240, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Bethesda, Md.) and The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine Inc. (Bethesda, Md.).

"Antibodies and methods for the diagnosis and treatment of Epstein Barr virus infection" was invented by Wei Bu (Potomac, Md.), Masaru Kanekiyo (North Bethesda, Md.), Michael Gordon Joyce (Washington) and Jeffrey I. Cohen (Silver Spring, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Antibodies and compositions of matter useful for the detection, diagnosis and treatment of Epstein Barr Virus...