US Patent Issued to Washington University on March 24 for "Conjugate systems and methods of use thereof" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,145, issued on March 24, was assigned to Washington University (St. Louis).

"Conjugate systems and methods of use thereof" was invented by David Curiel (St. Louis) and Zhi Hong Lu (St. Louis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Among the various aspects of the present disclosure is the provision of conjugate systems and methods of use thereof. In an aspect, the conjugate system includes an adenovirus comprising an exterior surface, and at least one polypeptide comprising a first domain and a second domain, and wherein the exterior surface comprises a peptide tag capable of binding to a binding partner."

The patent was filed on April 15, ...