US Patent Issued to Kansas State University Research Foundation on Aug. 5 for "Ehrlichia ruminantium immunogenic compositions and methods of using thereof" (Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,139, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Kansas State University Research Foundation (Manhattan, Kan.).

"Ehrlichia ruminantium immunogenic compositions and methods of using thereof" was invented by Bonto Faburay (Manhattan, Kan.) and Jodi McGill (Manhattan, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides compositions and methods for reducing the incidence of and/or severity of diseases associated with tick-borne pathogens. In preferred forms, the compositions comprise a recombinant antigenic protein subunit that has been glycosylated. Some preferred subunits include the MAP1 protein of Ehrlichia ruminantium, the p30-...