US Patent Issued to Hexamer Therapeutics on July 7 for "Vaccines against viral pathogens" (Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,096, issued on July 7, was assigned to Hexamer Therapeutics Inc. (Pullman, Wash.).

"Vaccines against viral pathogens" was invented by Keith Douglas Miller (Moscow, Idaho) and Robert Bogden (Viola, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes a unique viral peptide (VP) vaccine for preventing or treating viral diseases. The vaccine is produced synthetically and includes no production steps in biological cells (e.g. E. coli, CHO cells, yeast cells) that would require subsequent endotoxin assays/removal or viral clearance procedures. The hC peptide is synthesized separately from the VP, and following self-assembl...