US Patent Issued to CORNELL UNIVERSITY on Sept. 8 for "Use of membrane inhibitors to enhance vaccine development against enveloped viruses" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,161, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to CORNELL UNIVERSITY (Ithaca, N.Y.).

"Use of membrane inhibitors to enhance vaccine development against enveloped viruses" was invented by Hector Aguilar-Carreno (Ithaca, N.Y.), Isaac Monreal (Ithaca, N.Y.) and David Buchholz (Ithaca, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to method of vaccinating a subject against infection by an enveloped virus. The method includes providing a compound of the Formula (I) as described herein, and contacting the compound of Formula (I) with an isolated enveloped virus, having a membrane, to inactivate the membrane of the isolated enve...