US Patent Issued to BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM VETMEDICA on Oct. 14 for "Serum-free medium for avian vaccine production and uses thereof" (Georgia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,989, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM VETMEDICA GMBH (Ingelheim am Rhein, Germany).

"Serum-free medium for avian vaccine production and uses thereof" was invented by William Troy Hughes (Braselton, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes cultivating primary cells in a serum-free medium supplemented with peptides and peptones derived from plant or vegetable sources. The method for the cultivation of primary cells may be one step in a method for the amplification of viruses, such as poxviruses."

The patent was filed on Jan. 16, 2020, under Application No. 17/414,759.

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