US Patent Issued to The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services on Jan. 28 for "Peptides representing epitopes from filoviruses" (Maryland Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,017, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Silver Spring, Md.).

"Peptides representing epitopes from filoviruses" was invented by Surender Khurana (Clarksburg, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of identifying a subject with a Filovirus infection are provided herein. In some embodiments, the method comprises contacting a biological sample containing antibodies from the subject with one or more peptides comprising amino acid sequences of selected Filovirus epitopes, detecting the presence or absence of an immune complex of anti...