US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University on July 14 for "Gold nanoparticle intranasal vaccine compositions" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,496, issued on July 14, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"Gold nanoparticle intranasal vaccine compositions" was invented by Tarik F. Massoud (Stanford, Calif.), Ramasamy Paulmurugan (Stanford, Calif.) and Uday Sukumar (Stanford, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein, inter alia, are complexes comprising nanoparticles attached to viral proteins or nucleic acids encoding said viral proteins. Methods for making and using said complexes are provided. Compositions including the complexes are contemplated to be useful for treating and/or preventing viral inf...