ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,596, issued on April 21, was assigned to The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Bethesda, Md.).

"Self-assembling insect ferritin nanoparticles" was invented by Peter Kwong (Washington), Ivelin Georgiev (Nashville, Tenn.), Michael Gordon Joyce (Washington), Masaru Kanekiyo (Chevy Chase, Md.), Aliaksandr Druz (Germantown, Md.), Ulrich Baxa (Frederick, Md.), Joseph Van Galen (North Wales, Pa.), Cheng Cheng (Bethesda, Md.), John Mascola (Rockville, Md.), Yaroslav Tsybovsky (Brunswick, Md.), Yongping Yang (Potomac, Md.), Barney Graham (Smyrna, Ga.), Syed Mohammad Moin (Laurel, Md.) and Jeffrey Boyington (Clarksburg, Md.)...