ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,804, issued on April 21, was assigned to FluGen Inc. (Madison, Wis.).
"Influenza virus backbone" was invented by Michael J. Moser (Madison, Wis.), Yasuko Hatta (Madison, Wis.), Pamuk Bilsel (Madison, Wis.) and Lindsay Hill-Batorski (Lodi, Wis.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides an influenza virus that demonstrates enhanced growth in Vero cells. The influenza virus includes PA, NP, and NS gene segments having selected nucleotides and encoding proteins having amino acid sequences with selected amino aids. The invention also provides a pharmaceutical formulation containing the influenza virus, as well as a method of ...