US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITEIT GENT, VIB VZW on Sept. 15 for "Immunoglobulin single domain antibodies for delivery of mucosal vaccines" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,499, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to UNIVERSITEIT GENT (Ghent, Belgium) and VIB VZW (Zwijnaarde, Belgium).

"Immunoglobulin single domain antibodies for delivery of mucosal vaccines" was invented by Eric Cox (Oosterzele, Belgium), Bert Devriendt (Mariakerke, Belgium) and Anna Depicker (Schelderode, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to single-domain antibodies that specifically bind aminopeptidase N (APN), and more in particular to polypeptides, and nucleic acids encoding such polypeptides; to methods for preparing such polypeptides; to compositions and in particular to pharmaceutical composition...