ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,168, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Vir Biotechnlogy Inc. (San Francisco) and Triad National Security LLC (Los Alamos, N.M.).
"Hepatitis B virus vaccines" was invented by Eric Bruening (San Francisco), Janet Douglas (San Francisco), Emily Marshall (San Francisco), Karina Yusim (Santa Fe, N.M.), Bette Korber (Santa Fe, N.M.) and James Theiler (Santa Fe, N.M.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Isolated polynucleotides and polypeptides, and hepatitis B virus (HBV) vaccines comprising the same. Viral vectors for expressing such polypeptides, and which may be used in HBV vaccines, as well as methods of protecting a subject from HBV infectio...