US Patent Issued to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) on July 1 for "Recombinant biologically contained filovirus vaccine" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,390, issued on July 1, was assigned to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) (Madison, Wis.).

"Recombinant biologically contained filovirus vaccine" was invented by Yoshihiro Kawaoka (Middleton, Wis.) and Peter J. Halfmann (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a vaccine comprising a recombinant biologically contained filovirus and methods of making and using those viruses."

The patent was filed on Aug. 7, 2019, under Application No. 17/266,049.

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