US Patent Issued to Trustees of Tufts College on April 14 for "Neisseria gonorrhoeae vaccine compositions and methods of selecting antigens" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,655, issued on April 14, was assigned to Trustees of Tufts College.

"Neisseria gonorrhoeae vaccine compositions and methods of selecting antigens" was invented by Paola Massari (Cambridge, Mass.) and Caroline Genco (Medford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are vaccine compositions and methods of selecting an antigen or fragment thereof for the preparation of a vaccine composition. The methods and vaccine compositions described herein are based, in part, on the discovery that certain polypeptides not previously identified or considered for potential use as antigens from pathogenic microorganisms (e.g., N. gonorr...