US Patent Issued to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy on April 21 for "Methods and compositions for the detection of host protein cleavage by group IV viral proteases" (Maryland, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,633, issued on April 21, was assigned to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Arlington, Va.).

"Methods and compositions for the detection of host protein cleavage by group IV viral proteases" was invented by Patricia M. Legler (Derwood, Md.), Elaine Morazzani (Leesburg, Va.) and Pamela Glass (Frederick, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Proteases of Group IV (+)ssRNA viruses were found to act on a human sequences in addition to the viral sequences. The identity of the cleavable human sequences is disclosed. Detection of these sequences can act as a diagnostic of infection. It...