US Patent Issued to Wayne State University on Sept. 15 for "Antiviral compositions and methods" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,213, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Wayne State University (Detroit).

"Antiviral compositions and methods" was invented by Gil Mor (Southfield, Mich.) and Jiahui Ding (Detroit).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compositions and methods are provided according to aspects of the present disclosure for inhibition of a pathogenic virus. According to particular aspects, compositions and methods of the present disclosure include degradation of pathogenic viral nucleic acids by interferon-stimulated gene 20-kDa protein (ISG20) and/or a variant thereof, administered to a cell and/or subject to inhibit a pathogenic viral infection of the cel...