US Patent Issued to Triad National Security on Sept. 30 for "Alphavirus immunogens and methods of use" (New Mexico Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,448, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Triad National Security LLC (Los Alamos, N.M.).

"Alphavirus immunogens and methods of use" was invented by William M. Fischer (Los Alamos, N.M.) and Peter T. Hraber (Los Alamos, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Synthetic immunogenic polypeptides based on a curated set of natural alphavirus structural protein sequences are described. The polypeptides were computationally designed to provide optimal coverage of potential immunogenic epitopes of wild-type alphaviruses, including isolates of Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus, Western equine encephalitis virus, Eastern equine encephalitis vi...