US Patent Issued to Intervet on Aug. 12 for "Vaccine for protection against Streptococcus suis serotype 9, sequence type 16" (Dutch Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,610, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Intervet Inc. (Rahway, N.J.).

"Vaccine for protection against Streptococcus suis serotype 9, sequence type 16" was invented by Antonius Arnoldus Christiaan Jacobs (Kessel, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention pertains to a vaccine comprising in combination an IgM protease antigen of Streptococcus suis and a Streptococcus suis bacterin of serotype (9), sequence type (16), for use in a method for protecting pigs against a pathogenic infection with Streptococcus suis serotype (9), sequence type (16)."

The patent was filed on March 12, 2021, under Application No. 17/909...