US Patent Issued to Washington University on Oct. 21 for "Compositions and methods for inhibition of alphavirus infection" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,415, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Washington University (St. Louis).

"Compositions and methods for inhibition of alphavirus infection" was invented by Michael Diamond (St. Louis), Daved Fremont (St. Louis), Rong Zhang (St. Louis), Arthur Kim (St. Louis), Larissa Thackray (St. Louis), Katherine Basore (St. Louis) and Christopher A. Nelson (St. Louis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Among the various aspects of the present disclosure is the provision of compositions and methods of treating arthritogenic alphavirus infection and methods of screening."

The patent was filed on Jan. 4, 2019, under Application No. 16/959,867.

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