US Patent Issued to Sanofi Pasteur, VIR VZW, Universiteit Gent on Jan. 13 for "Methods of generating broadly protective vaccine compositions comprising neuraminidase" (Belgian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,430, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Sanofi Pasteur Inc. (Swiftwater, Pa.), VIR VZW (Ghent, Belgium) and Universiteit Gent (Ghent, Belgium).

"Methods of generating broadly protective vaccine compositions comprising neuraminidase" was invented by Tod Strugnell (Carlisle, Mass.), Eliud Oloo (Arlington, Mass.), Raymond Oomen (Cambridge, Mass.), Thorsten Vogel (Cambridge, Mass.), Xavier Saelens (Teper, Belgium) and Emma Job (Mechelen, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a cluster-based consensus approach for generating recombinant neuraminidase (NA) polypeptides. The disclosure further relates to i...