US Patent Issued to Duke University, Triad National Security, The Trustees of The University of Pennsylvania on Feb. 24 for "Compositions comprising V2 opt HIV envelopes" (North Carolina, New Mexico, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,527, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Duke University (Durham, N.C.), Triad National Security LLC (Los Alamos, N.M.) and The Trustees of The University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia).

"Compositions comprising V2 opt HIV envelopes" was invented by Kevin O. Saunders (Durham, N.C.), Barton F. Haynes (Durham, N.C.), Bette T. Korber (Los Alamos, N.M.), Kshitij G. Wagh (Los Alamos, N.M.), Beatrice H. Hahn (Philadelphia) and Ronnie M. Russell (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In certain aspects the invention provides HIV-1 immunogens, including HIV-1 envelopes with optimized V2 loop for antibody induction."

The patent was file...