ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,159, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO (Chicago) and THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE (Washington).

"Coronavirus vaccines compositions and method of using same" was invented by Susan Baker (Elmhurst, Ill.), Xufang Deng (Lyons, Ill.), Kelly Milton Lager (Colo, Iowa), Kay Faaberg (Ames, Iowa) and Alexandra DeVries (Ames, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides compositions, for example vaccine compositions comprising live, attenuated coronavirus. The disclosure also provides methods of using coronavirus vaccines, including methods of t...