US Patent Issued to International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, The Scripps Research Institute on April 21 for "Immunogenic trimers" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,441, issued on April 21, was assigned to International AIDS Vaccine Initiative Inc. (New York) and The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, Calif.).

"Immunogenic trimers" was invented by Jon Steichen (La Jolla, Calif.), Dan Kulp (New York), Xiaozhen Hu (La Jolla, Calif.), Sergey Menis (New York), William Schief (La Jolla, Calif.) and Sebastian Raemisch (La Jolla, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to PGT121-germline-targeting designs, trimer stabilization designs, combinations of those two, trimers designed with modified surfaces helpful for immunization regimens, other trimer modifications and on developme...