US Patent Issued to The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology on March 17 for "Vaccines against Powassan virus, and methods of using same" (Pennsylvania, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,144, issued on March 17, was assigned to The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (Philadelphia).

"Vaccines against Powassan virus, and methods of using same" was invented by Kar Muthumani (Cherry Hill, N.J.), David Weiner (Merion, Pa.), Hyeree Choi (Philadelphia) and Sagar B. Kudchodkar (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aspect of the present invention is related to nucleic acid constructs capable of expressing at least one Powassan virus (POWV) antigen that elicits an immune response in a mammal against POWV virus, and methods of use thereof."

The patent was filed on Dec. 20, 2019, under Application No. 17/416,199...