ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,437, issued on June 3, was assigned to Biological E Ltd. (India).

"Vaccine formulations comprising preservative" was invented by Veerapandu Sangareddy (Telangana, India), Rajendar Burki (Telangana, India), Rajan Sriraman (Telangana, India), Ramesh Venkat Matur (Telangana, India), Narender Dev Mantena (Telangana, India) and Mahima Datla (Telangana, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to vaccine formulations comprising preservative systems. More particularly, the present invention relates to preservative systems for vaccine formulations which is free of thiomersal, and comprising 2-phenoxyethanol and at le...