US Patent Issued to The University of Hong Kong on July 14 for "Recombinant viruses expressing alpha-1, 3-galactosyltransferase and uses thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,085, issued on July 14, was assigned to The University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong).

"Recombinant viruses expressing alpha-1, 3-galactosyltransferase and uses thereof" was invented by Lit Man Poon (Hong Kong), Li-Meng Yan (Hong Kong), Pui Ngan Lau (Hong Kong) and Malik Peiris (Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are viruses, and vaccines comprised of and made from such viruses, that include a heterologous nucleic acid segment encoding Alpha-1,3-galactosyltransferase (Alpha-1,3-GT) such that the nucleic acid segment expresses Alpha-1,3-GT when the virus infects a host cell. Such viruses produce proteins having Alpha-1,3-gal...