US Patent Issued to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation on July 21 for "Modified gene vaccines against avian coronaviruses and methods of using the same" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,766, issued on July 21, was assigned to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wis.).

"Modified gene vaccines against avian coronaviruses and methods of using the same" was invented by Adel Talaat (Madison, Wis.) and Shaswath Chandrasekar (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides both QuilA-loaded chitosan (QAC)-encapsulated NA vaccine compositions and viral vaccine compositions that encode an Infectious Bronchitis Virus (IBV) spike (S) protein, an IBV nucleocapsid (N) protein, or both the S protein and the N protein. Additionally, the present invention provides methods in which the disclose...