US Patent Issued to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai on July 21 for "Universal influenza vaccine using nucleoside-modified mRNA" (Pennsylvania, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,764, issued on July 21, was assigned to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (New York).

"Universal influenza vaccine using nucleoside-modified mRNA" was invented by Norbert Pardi (Philadelphia), Drew Weissman (Wynnewood, Pa.), Raffael Nachbagauer (New York), Scott Hensley (Philadelphia), Peter Palese (New York), Florian Krammer (New York), Adolfo Garcia-Sastre (New York) and Alec W. Freyn (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to compositions and methods for inducing an immune response against influenza virus in a subject. In some em...