US Patent Issued to WUXI BIOLOGICS IRELAND on Sept. 2 for "Methods and compositions for treating yellow fever" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,404,319, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to WUXI BIOLOGICS IRELAND Ltd. (Dundalk, Ireland).

"Methods and compositions for treating yellow fever" was invented by Yadunanda Kumar Budigi (Singapore), Yok Hian Chionh (Singapore), Debbie Ching Ping Lee (Singapore) and Megan Earley McBee (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is based, at least in part, on the discovery of antibodies that specifically bind YFV and/or neutralize the virus. Compositions and methods related to such antibodies or antigen-binding portions thereof are provided."

The patent was filed on Oct. 8, 2020, under Application No. 17/066,299.

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