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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 1998
Filed:
Oct. 24, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Steven Ludmerer, Picataway, NJ (US);
George E Mark, III, Princeton Junction, NJ (US);
Diana Benincasa, Elizabeth, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K / ; A61K / ; C12N / ; A01N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
4242041 ; 4241781 ; 4241841 ; 424 941 ; 4242051 ; 4351723 ; 435-5 ; 435-714 ; 435-7924 ; 536 2372 ; 514-2 ;
Abstract
The present invention is a series of synthetic virus-like particles useful in the characterization of human papillomavirus infection and assays employing the synthetic virus-like particles. The synthetic virus-like particles are generated from constructs designated as HPV6:4; HPV6:5; HPV6:2; HPV6:4.DELTA.132; and HPV6:4,S131G.