US Patent Issued to THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AS REPRESENTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS on March 17 for "Antibody-mediated transduction of heat shock proteins into living cells" (California, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,294, issued on March 17, was assigned to THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AS REPRESENTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS (Washington).

"Antibody-mediated transduction of heat shock proteins into living cells" was invented by Richard H. Weisbart (Sepulveda, Calif.), Robert N. Nishimura (Sepulveda, Calif.) and James E. Hansen (Guilford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides for a fusion protein comprising a 3E10 Fv joined to a Hsp-70, Hsp-27, Hsp-90 or GRP-78 or portion thereof, and optionally, the 3E10 Fv comprising an amino acid sequence AGIH at its amino terminus."

The patent was filed on May 27, 2020, unde...