US Patent Issued to The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology on July 15 for "Vaccines against Nipah virus, and methods of using same" (Pennsylvania, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,683, issued on July 15, was assigned to The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (Philadelphia).

"Vaccines against Nipah virus, and methods of using same" was invented by Kar Muthumani (Cherry Hill, N.J.) and David Weiner (Merion, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aspect of the present invention is related to nucleic acid constructs capable of expressing at least one Nipah virus (NiV) antigen that elicits an immune response in a mammal against NiV virus, and methods of use thereof."

The patent was filed on Aug. 21, 2019, under Application No. 17/269,409.

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