US Patent Issued to Carogen on March 17 for "Compositions and methods of use of oncolytic virus like vesicles" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,585, issued on March 17, was assigned to Carogen Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Compositions and methods of use of oncolytic virus like vesicles" was invented by Bijan Almassian (Cheshire, Conn.), Valerian Nakaar (Hamden, Conn.), Xianyong Ma (Woodbridge, Conn.), Bhaskara Reddy Madina (South Windsor, Conn.), Kepeng Wang (Farmington, Conn.) and Timur Yarovinsky (Woodbridge, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to high-titer hybrid vims vectors which produce virus-like vesicle (VLVs) and compositions and methods thereof for targeting a malignancy or infectious disease. VLVs are a capsid-free, self-replicating...