ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,476, issued on July 29, was assigned to Institute of Animal Sciences of CAAS (Beijing).

"Canine parvovirus (CPV) nanobody CPV-VHH-H1 and use thereof" was invented by Hong Jia (Beijing), Hongfei Zhu (Beijing), Weifeng Yuan (Beijing), Shaohua Hou (Beijing), Xiaoyu Guo (Beijing), Yitong Jiang (Beijing), Qianqian Feng (Beijing), Zhaoyang Wang (Beijing) and Ting Xin (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heavy-chain variable region sequence of the nanobody CPV-VHH-H1 has the amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 1; and a gene encoding the nanobody CPV-VHH-H1 has the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 2. A nanobody immune...