US Patent Issued to Kansas State University Research Foundation on Nov. 18 for "Methods and compositions for treating and protecting against porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus" (Illinois, Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,341, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Kansas State University Research Foundation (Manhattan, Kan.).

"Methods and compositions for treating and protecting against porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus" was invented by Raymond R.R. Rowland (Chamgpaign, Ill.) and Ana Stoian (Manhattan, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides compositions and methods for decreasing permissiveness to infection by PRRSV. The methods involve inserting peptides or oligopeptides into the CD163 SRCR domain 5 to disrupt the protein structure and thereby prevent PRRSV infection. The deletion of the exon 13 region of P...