US Patent Issued to Xiamen University, Xiamen Innovax Biotech on April 14 for "Methods for inactivating and storing respiratory syncytial virus" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,750, issued on April 14, was assigned to Xiamen University (Xiamen, China) and Xiamen Innovax Biotech Co. Ltd. (Xiamen, China).

"Methods for inactivating and storing respiratory syncytial virus" was invented by Zizheng Zheng (Xiamen, China), Wei Zhang (Xiamen, China), Lujing Zhang (Xiamen, China), Yongpeng Sun (Xiamen, China), Li Chen (Xiamen, China) and Ningshao Xia (Xiamen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a method for inactivating respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and stabilizing pre-F protein in RSV and inactivated RSV virus obtained thereby. Also provided are a vaccine comprising the inactivated RSV virus and a...