US Patent Issued to University of Washington on Oct. 6 for "Polypeptides, compositions, and their use to treat or limit development of an infection" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,002, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to University of Washington (Seattle).

"Polypeptides, compositions, and their use to treat or limit development of an infection" was invented by Neil P. King (Seattle), David Veesler (Seattle), Carl Walkey (Seattle), Alexandra C. Walls (Seattle) and Jing Yang Wang (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to polypeptides comprising an amino acid sequence that is at least 95% identical to the amino acid sequence selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NOS: 1-84, 138-146, and 167-184, nanoparticles comprising the polypeptides, compositions comprising the nanoparticles...