US Patent Issued to TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE, KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY, NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY on April 22 for "Dengue virus vaccine" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,099, issued on April 22, was assigned to TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE (Tokyo), KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY (Kagoshima, Japan) and NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY (Nagasaki, Japan).

"Dengue virus vaccine" was invented by Michinori Kohara (Tokyo), Fumihiko Yasui (Tokyo), Daisuke Yamane (Tokyo), Kyoko Kohara (Kagoshima, Japan), Kouichi Morita (Nagasaki, Japan), Yasuhiro Yasutomi (Ibaraki, Japan) and Koji Ishii (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a recombinant Vaccinia virus as a dengue virus vaccine that can be used as a therapeutic or prophylactic agent in the clinic. This recombinant Vaccinia virus is c...