US Patent Issued to GLAXOSMITHKLINE BIOLOGICALS on Aug. 11 for "Carbocyclic derivatives and conjugated derivatives thereof, and their use in vaccines" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,705, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to GLAXOSMITHKLINE BIOLOGICALS SA (Rixensart, Belgium).

"Carbocyclic derivatives and conjugated derivatives thereof, and their use in vaccines" was invented by Roberto Adamo (Siena, Italy), Francesco Berti (Siena, Italy), Paolo Costantino (Milan) and Luigi Lay (Milan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention is in the field of vaccines and relates to oligomers having a selected degree of polymerization, obtained by connecting together a number of carbocyclic repeating units, and to conjugated derivatives thereof. The oligomers and conjugated derivatives thereof of the invention also have a sele...