ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,556, issued on May 6, was assigned to Intervet Inc. (Rahway, Jersey).
"Swine influenza a virus vaccine" was invented by Mark A. Mogler (Ames, Iowa), Pravina Kitikoon (Overland Park, Kan.), Supraja Puttamreddy (Ames, Iowa), Erin Strait (Spring Hill, Kan.), Ruud Philip Antoon Maria Segers (Boxmeer, Netherlands) and Basav Nagaraj (Wageningen, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides vectors and/or nucleic acid constructs that encode one or more influenza A virus neuraminidase (NA) antigens. The present invention also provides vaccine against influenza A virus comprising such vectors and/or nucleic acid c...