ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,863, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Valneva Austria GmbH (Vienna).

"Methods for preparing aluminum precipitate compounds for use in therapeutics and vaccines" was invented by Robert Schlegl (Siegenfeld, Austria), Michael Mohlen (Vienna), Jurgen Heindl-Wruss (Vienna) and Michael Weber (Vienna).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to means and methods for preparing aqueous composition comprising aluminium and a protein said composition comprising less than 700 ppm heavy metal on the basis of weight with respect to the aluminium content. The invention further relates to aqueous compositions comprising a protein and an...