US Patent Issued to The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services on July 14 for "Recombinant human metapneumovirus F proteins and their use" (Maryland, District Of Columbia, New York, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,870, issued on July 14, was assigned to The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Bethesda, Md.).

"Recombinant human metapneumovirus F proteins and their use" was invented by Peter Kwong (Washington), Guillaume Stewart-Jones (Cambridge, Mass.), Jason Gorman (New York), Li Ou (Potomac, Md.), Tongqing Zhou (Boyds, Md.), Baoshan Zhang (Bethesda, Md.), Wing-Pui Kong (Germantown, Md.), Yaroslav Tsybovsky (Brunswick, Md.), John Mascola (Rockville, Md.), Peter Collins (Kensington, Md.) and Ursula Buchholz (Silver Spring, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Metapneumovirus (HMPV) F...