US Patent Issued to VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY on Feb. 24 for "Human hendra virus and nipah virus antibodies and methods of use therefor" (Tennessee Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,545, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY (Nashville, Tenn.).

"Human hendra virus and nipah virus antibodies and methods of use therefor" was invented by James E. Crowe Jr. (Nashville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to antibodies binding to and neutralizing henipavirus and methods for use thereof. Thus, in accordance with the present disclosure, there is provided a method of detecting a henipavirus infection in a subject comprising (a) contacting a sample from said subject with an antibody or antibody fragment having clone-paired heavy and light chain CDR sequences from Tab...