Patents by Inventor Rene Germanier

Rene Germanier has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Live vaccine against mumps and process for obtaining thereof
    Patent number: 5006335
    Abstract: The invention relates to a live vaccine against mumps, which contains live mumps viruses which are capable of multiplication and have been attenuated principally by passages in diploid human tissue cultures. The vaccine is substantially free from proteins and antibiotics.The invention also relates to the process for the preparation of a live vaccine against mumps, which comprises obtaining live mumps viruses from the urine of patients with an acute attack of mumps, passaging the viruses in diploid human cells, thereby attenuating the viruses by repeated passages in tissue of this type and, optionally further attenuating the viruses by passaging in embryonic or fertilized chicken eggs, optionally further attenuating the viruses by further passaging in diploid human cells, thereby adapting the viruses to human tissue, isolating, cultivating, and then processing the live mumps viruses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 1986
    Date of Patent: April 9, 1991
    Assignees: Swiss Serum & Vaccine Institute, Institute for the Research of Infectious Diseases
    Inventors: Reinhard Gluck, Rene Germanier