US Patent Issued to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation on Feb. 3 for "Adjuvant for animal and human vaccines" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,331, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wis.).

"Adjuvant for animal and human vaccines" was invented by Adel M. Talaat (Madison, Wis.) and Shaswath Chandrasekar (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Quil-A chitosan spherical nanostructure complexes as well as methods of making and using such complexes are disclosed herein. Also provided are Quil-A chitosan spherical nanostrucutres loaded with one or more RNA, DNA, or protein payload molecules as well as methods of making and using such loaded complexes."

The patent was filed on Aug. 16, 2023, under Application No. 18/450,908.

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