US Patent Issued to IMPERIAL COLLEGE INNOVATIONS on June 23 for "Coronavirus vaccine" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,394, issued on June 23, was assigned to IMPERIAL COLLEGE INNOVATIONS Ltd. (London).

"Coronavirus vaccine" was invented by Robin Shattock (London), Paul McKay (London) and Anna Blakney (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to vaccines, and in particular, to vaccines for preventing, treating or ameliorating coronavirus infections, such as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS), SARS-CoV-2 and Middle East respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus (MERS). The invention is especially concerned with self-amplifying RNA replicons and genetic constructs or vectors encoding such RNA replicons, and their use...