ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,701, issued on March 4, was assigned to Vernagen LLC (Tucker, Ga.).
"Respiratory syncytial virus mRNA vaccine" was invented by Baek Kim (Atlanta), Jack Yoon (Suwanee, Ga.) and David Pak (Suwanee, Ga.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are a respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine composition including a messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) including an open reading frame (ORF) encoding RSV mutant F B strain protein, and optionally a mRNA including an ORF encoding RSV mutant F A strain protein, and a method of inducing immune response against RSV by administering an effective amount of the RSV vaccine composition to a subje...