US Patent Issued to The Government of the United States, as Represented by the Secretary of the Army on April 21 for "SAR-CoV-2 DNA vaccine and method of administering thereof" (Maryland Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,443, issued on April 21, was assigned to The Government of the United States, as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Fort Detrick, Md.).

"SAR-CoV-2 DNA vaccine and method of administering thereof" was invented by Jay W. Hooper (New Market, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The current disclosure provides a severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) spike-based DNA vaccine capable of eliciting immune response to a SARS-CoV-2 in a human subject upon administration. Also provided is a method of eliciting an immune response to a SARS-CoV-2 in a human subject by administering the SARS-CoV-2 spike-based DNA vaccin...