US Patent Issued to OSAKA UNIVERSITY, TAKARA BIO, ANGES on July 7 for "DNA vaccine for SARS-COV-2" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,097, issued on July 7, was assigned to OSAKA UNIVERSITY (Osaka, Japan), TAKARA BIO INC. (Shiga, Japan) and ANGES INC. (Osaka, Japan).

"DNA vaccine for SARS-COV-2" was invented by Hironori Nakagami (Suita, Japan), Ryuichi Morishita (Suita, Japan), Hiroki Hayashi (Suita, Japan), Yasunori Amaishi (Kusatsu, Japan), Sachiko Okamoto (Kusatsu, Japan), Junichi Mineno (Kusatsu, Japan), Hisato Ikai (Ibaraki, Japan), Junko Michibata (Ibaraki, Japan) and Takao Komatsuno (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is DNA that: encodes a coronavirus (SARS COV-2) spike protein or a fragment thereof; and has been optimized to partially or...