US Patent Issued to Trustees of Dartmouth College, Duke University on Aug. 5 for "Compositions and methods for preventing or ameliorating neonatal HSV infection" (New Hampshire, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,305, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, N.H.) and Duke University (Durham, N.C.).

"Compositions and methods for preventing or ameliorating neonatal HSV infection" was invented by Margaret E. Ackerman (Hanover, N.H.), Iara M. Backes (Hanover, N.H.), David A. Leib (Hanover, N.H.), Chaya D. Patel (Hanover, N.H.) and Michael Anthony Moody (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to compositions and methods for treating or preventing neonatal herpes simplex virus (HSV) infection and/or the neurological and/or non-neurological sequelae thereof."

The patent was filed ...