Here is the abstract about the new corona virus source. Note the affiliation of the authors. Looks like the bioengineeering group also work on vaccines and intranasal immunization methods.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31967321
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31076161
The patent info was posted by another anon (great find Anon) in an earlier bread and the abstract mentions the strain use as a vaccine.