US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION on May 19 for "Live self-destructing bacterial adjuvants to enhance induction of immunity" (Florida Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,417, issued on May 19, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION Inc. (Gainesville, Fla.).

"Live self-destructing bacterial adjuvants to enhance induction of immunity" was invented by Roy Curtiss (Gainesville, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are unique adjuvant compositions comprising an attenuated derivative of a self-destructing bacterial pathogen that undergoes lysis in vivo. In exemplary embodiments, the bacterial pathogen is a Salmonella spp. Also disclosed are methods for enhancing an immune response using the adjuvants disclosed herein."

The patent was filed on April 30, 2021, under Applica...