US Patent Issued to UNIVERSIDAD AUSTRAL DE CHILE on May 5 for "Single domain VHH antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 virus" (Chilean, Kittian And Nevisian, Spanish, Costa Rican Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,838, issued on May 5, was assigned to UNIVERSIDAD AUSTRAL DE CHILE (Valdivia, Chile).

"Single domain VHH antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 virus" was invented by Alejandro Rojas (Valdivia, Chile), Guillermo Valenzuela (Valdivia, Chile), Ronald Jara (Valdivia, Chile), Johanna Himelreichs (Valdivia, Chile), Constanza Salinas (Valdivia, Chile), Teresa Pinto (Valdivia, Chile), Natalia Lopez (Madrid), Yorka Cheuquemilla (Valdivia, Chile), Alexei Cuevas (Valdivia, Chile), Zaray Miranda (San Jose, Costa Rica), Benjamin Uberti (Valdivia, Chile) and Ananda Muller (Basseterre, Saint Kitts and Nevis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provid...