US Patent Issued to Elanco UK AH, Elanco US on Feb. 4 for "Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome vaccine virus" (American, French, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,214,032, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Elanco UK AH Ltd. (Hampshire, Great Britain) and Elanco US Inc (Greenfield, Ind.).

"Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome vaccine virus" was invented by Stephen Qitu Wu (Fishers, Ind.), Cinta Prieto Suarez (Madrid) and Geoffrey Gregory Labarque (Neuilly sur Seine, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to modified, live Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome viruses. Viruses were genetically analyzed and selected based on phylogenetic grouping for modification by repeated passage in tissue culture. The modified, live viruses were assessed for the abilit...