US Patent Issued to AIMST UNIVERSITY on April 1 for "Monovalent vaccine formulation and a method for preparation thereof" (Malaysian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,263,212, issued on April 1, was assigned to AIMST UNIVERSITY (Bedong, Malaysia).

"Monovalent vaccine formulation and a method for preparation thereof" was invented by Guruswamy Prabhakaran (Bedong, Malaysia), Manickam Ravichandran (Bedong, Malaysia), Kurunathan A/L Sinniah (Bedong, Malaysia) and Yean Yean Chan (Penang, Malaysia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses a vaccine formulation in accordance with an illustrative embodiment. The formulation including a live attenuated cholera vaccine strain VCUSM14P; a vaccine medium having starch, cellulose, dextrose, and yeast extract; and a phosphate buffer saline."

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