US Patent Issued to THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG on May 12 for "Nucleic acid molecules and dual-functional peptides having antiviral activity and delivery activity, compositions and methods thereof" (Chinese, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,368, issued on May 12, was assigned to THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG (Hong Kong, Hong Kong).

"Nucleic acid molecules and dual-functional peptides having antiviral activity and delivery activity, compositions and methods thereof" was invented by Hanjun Zhao (Shanghai), Kai Wang Kelvin To (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and Kwok Yung Yuen (Hong Kong, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are delivery and expression systems of multiple antiviral therapeutic molecules. The therapeutic molecules include a novel class of dual-functional peptide and defective interfering genes of a virus. Also disclosed are compositions comprising the thera...