Chinese companies are very good at stealing patented inventions but the patent for the US is still held by a UK company
https://patents.justia.com/assignee/...ight-institute
https://www.pirbright.ac.uk/our-scie.../coronaviruses
I don't know if this has anything to do with the information that bulletbob has on a Canadian company.
It appears to be from a variation of the bird flu created in research.