US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITAT ULM on Oct. 7 for "Adenovirus comprising a modified adenovirus hexon protein" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,112, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to UNIVERSITAT ULM (Ulm, Germany).

"Adenovirus comprising a modified adenovirus hexon protein" was invented by Stefan Kochanek (Blaubeuren, Germany), Lea Krutzke (Sachsenheim, Germany), Robin Nilson (Ulm, Germany) and Olivia Lubbers (Neu-Ulm, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention discloses a human adenovirus species C having a capsid which comprises a modified adenovirus hexon protein, wherein the modified adenovirus hexon protein has a modified HVR1 region, wherein the modified HVR1 region has the sequence DEAATALEINLKKKKQAEQQ (SEQ ID NO.: 1). The invention further discloses the aden...