US Patent Issued to Novo Capsid Technologies on May 19 for "Hepatitis E virus-like particles (VLPs) derived from consensus sequences" (California, Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,844, issued on May 19, was assigned to Novo Capsid Technologies LLC (Carmichael, Calif.).

"Hepatitis E virus-like particles (VLPs) derived from consensus sequences" was invented by Verne A. Luckow (Chesterfield, Mo.), Chun-Chieh Chen (Rocklin, Calif.) and David Hedin (Carmichael, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Virus-Like Particles derived from the subfamilies, Parahepevirinae, which infect trout and salmon, and the Orthohepevirinae, which infect mammals and birds, particularly those of the species Paslahepevirus balayani, which can cause acute hepatitis in humans and several mammalian species, and chronic conditions in immunoco...