US Patent Issued to The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services on May 26 for "Mumps and measles virus immunogens and their use" (Georgia, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,360, issued on May 26, was assigned to The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Bethesda, Md.).

"Mumps and measles virus immunogens and their use" was invented by Barney Graham (Smyrna, Ga.), Guillaume Stewart-Jones (Cambridge, Mass.) and Rebecca J. Loomis (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of immunogens comprising a recombinant Mumps (MuV) F ectodomain trimer stabilized in a prefusion conformation or a recombinant Measles (MeV) F ectodomain trimer stabilized in a prefusion conformation are provided. Also provided are embodiments of immunogens compris...