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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:
Feb. 10, 2004
Filed:
Jun. 04, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Kathrin U. Jansen, Doylestown, PA (US);
Jessica C. Ling, Bensalem, PA (US);
Steven W. Ludmerer, Piscataway, NJ (US);
William L. McClements, Doylestown, PA (US);
Xin-Min Wang, Schwenksville, PA (US);
Assignee:
Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 1/537 ; C12N 1/585 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 1/537 ; C12N 1/585 ;
Abstract
The invention is a series of synthetic virus-like particles comprising a heterologous conformational epitope useful in the characterization of human papillomavirus infection, and useful to vaccinate individual for protection against HPV 6 and HPV 11 infections, and assays employing the synthetic virus-like particles.