US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Feb. 24 for "IL-10 inhibition for vaccines and immunotherapy" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,413, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"IL-10 inhibition for vaccines and immunotherapy" was invented by Dennis Hartigan-O'Connor (Davis, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are methods for inducing an immune response against an antigen in a subject. In some embodiments, the methods comprise administering a therapeutically effective amount of a vaccine and an interleukin 10 (IL-10) inhibitor to the subject. In some embodiments, the vaccine is an IL-10-deficient vaccine."

The patent was filed on Feb. 10, 2021, under Application No. 17/173,118.

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