US Patent Issued to INTERVET on April 22 for "Conjugated deoxynivalenol to protect against mycotoxicosis" (Dutch, Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,035, issued on April 22, was assigned to INTERVET INC. (Rahway, N.J.).

"Conjugated deoxynivalenol to protect against mycotoxicosis" was invented by Sietske Kooijman (Huissen, Netherlands), Rudd Philip Antoon Maria Segers (Boxmeer, Netherlands), Mateusz Walczak (Ottersum, Netherlands), Gudrun Koch (Vienna) and Maarten Hendrik Witlvliet (Oostrum, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention pertains to the use of conjugated deoxynivalenol (DON) in a method to protect an animal against DON induced mycotoxicosis, in particular to protect against a decrease in average daily weight gain, liver damage, stomach ulcers and/...