US Patent Issued to THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, University of Washington on Aug. 18 for "Methods and compositions for inducing an immune response using conserved element constructs" (Maryland, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,635, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (Bethesda, Md.) and University of Washington (Seattle).

"Methods and compositions for inducing an immune response using conserved element constructs" was invented by Barbara K. Felber (Rockville, Md.), George N. Pavlakis (Rockville, Md.), James I. Mullins (Seattle), Antonio Valentin (Frederick, Md.) and Siriphan Manocheewa (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides methods and compositions for eliciting broad immune responses to HIV envelope proteins. The methods include use...