US Patent Issued to Seqirus UK on March 17 for "Method for producing reassortant influenza viruses" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,146, issued on March 17, was assigned to Seqirus UK Ltd. (Berkshire, Great Britain).

"Method for producing reassortant influenza viruses" was invented by Steven Rockman (Victoria, Australia), Chi Ong (Victoria, Australia) and Erin Verity (Victoria, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing reassortant influenza viruses is provided. Also provided are reassortant influenza viruses produced according to the method, as well as vaccines based on said reassortant influenza viruses."

The patent was filed on Nov. 18, 2020, under Application No. 17/775,475.

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