US Patent Issued to Virovek on July 28 for "Baculovirus expression system" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,481, issued on July 28, was assigned to Virovek Inc. (Houston).

"Baculovirus expression system" was invented by Haifeng Chen (Tomball, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a heterologous recombinant baculovirus (rBV) expression system for the production of foreign heterologous proteins in insect cells. This system comprises a recombinant baculovirus backbone within a genome with a deletion in the cathepsin gene into which foreign gene cassettes can be integrated, and an insect cell that can be infected by the trianglev-cath-rBV, and in which the foreign proteins and/or viral vectors or particles are ...