US Patent Issued to CITY OF HOPE on March 24 for "Synthetic modified vaccinia Ankara (SMVA) based coronavirus vaccines" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,146, issued on March 24, was assigned to CITY OF HOPE (Duarte, Calif.).

"Synthetic modified vaccinia Ankara (SMVA) based coronavirus vaccines" was invented by Don J. Diamond (Glendora, Calif.), Felix Wussow (Glendora, Calif.) and Flavia Chiuppesi (Duarte, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Synthetic MVA-based vaccine compositions for preventing or treating a virus infection such as a coronavirus infection and methods of producing the vaccines. The vaccine compositions include (i) either a single DNA fragment that includes the entire genome of MVA, or two or more DNA fragments, each including a partial sequence of the genome of th...