US Patent Issued to The General Hospital, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary on Feb. 17 for "Highly networked immunogen composition" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,547, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to The General Hospital Corp. (Boston) and Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary (Boston).

"Highly networked immunogen composition" was invented by Bruce D. Walker (Nahant, Mass.), Gaurav D. Gaiha (Somerville, Mass.) and Elizabeth Rossin (Charlestown, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of preventing or treating HIV in a subject includes selecting two or more HIV CTL epitopes from an HIV proteome that have a network score that meets a threshold value. The network score for a given epitope can be determined by generating at least one network representing protein structure, calculating a set...