US Patent Issued to CSIR, ONDERSTEPOORT BILOGICAL PRODUCTS SOC, UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN on Feb. 4 for "Plant-produced chimaeric orbivirus VLPs" (South African Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,215,328, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to CSIR (South Africa), ONDERSTEPOORT BILOGICAL PRODUCTS SOC LTD (South Africa) and UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN (South Africa).

"Plant-produced chimaeric orbivirus VLPs" was invented by Albertha Rene Van Zyl (Wynberg, South Africa), Ann Elizabeth Meyers (Plumstead, South Africa), Daria Anna Rutkowska (Centurion, South Africa), Edward Peter Rybicki (Cape Town, South Africa), Hester Catharina Stark (Irene, South Africa), Martha Magaretha O'Kennedy (Pretoria, South Africa) and Nobalanda Betty Mokoena (Montana, South Africa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention relates to a second generation, plant-...