US Patent Issued to South China Agricultural University on June 16 for "Construction and application of recombinant H5N8 subtype avian influenza virus carrying mapple fluorescence reporter gene" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,655,396, issued on June 16, was assigned to South China Agricultural University (Guangzhou, China).

"Construction and application of recombinant H5N8 subtype avian influenza virus carrying mapple fluorescence reporter gene" was invented by Manman Dai (Guangzhou, China), Wei Song (Guangzhou, China), Xiyue Chen (Guangzhou, China) and Ming Liao (Guangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an NS protein, comprising an amino acid sequence from positions 1 to 217 of SEQ ID NO: 2, an amino acid sequence of an mApple fluorescence reporter gene and an amino acid sequence from positions 480 to 600 of SEQ ID NO: 2 linked in order. ...