US Patent Issued to Janssen Vaccines & Prevention on March 17 for "Influenza virus vaccines and uses thereof" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,279, issued on March 17, was assigned to Janssen Vaccines & Prevention B.V. (Leiden, Netherlands).

"Influenza virus vaccines and uses thereof" was invented by Boerries Brandenburg (Utrecht, Netherlands), Johannes Petrus Maria Langedijk (Amsterdam), Tina Ritschel (Oegstgeest, Netherlands), Ferdinand Jacobus Milder (Zwolle, Netherlands) and Mandy Antonia Catharina Jongeneelen (Leiden, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are isolated mutant influenza hemagglutinin polypeptides, methods for providing isolated mutant hemagglutinin polypeptides, compositions comprising the same, vaccines comprising the same and meth...