US Patent Issued to The University of Vermont and State Agricultural College, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Jan. 27 for "Highly specific zika neutralizing human antibodies" (Vermont, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,517, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to The University of Vermont and State Agricultural College (Burlington, Vt.) and The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

"Highly specific zika neutralizing human antibodies" was invented by Sean Diehl (Shelburne, Vt.), Aravinda de Silva (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Matthew Collins (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Ben McElvany (Burlington, Vt.) and Huy Tu (Burlington, Vt.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein, in some embodiments, are compositions of Zika-specific antibodies and antigen-binding fragments thereof and methods of using the antibodies and antigen-binding fragments."...