US Patent Issued to SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE on July 1 for "Lyophilized and stabilized live attenuated formulated vaccine against tularemia" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,431, issued on July 1, was assigned to SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE (San Antonio).

"Lyophilized and stabilized live attenuated formulated vaccine against tularemia" was invented by Kenneth H. Carson (San Antonio), Spring M. Cabiness (Mico, Texas), Amy M. De Los Santos (San Antonio) and Karl Klose (San Antonio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lyophilized stabilized formulation containing a live attenuated vaccine strain against tularemia. The method includes supplying the immunogenic agent comprising Fn-igIDOAgFTT and subjecting the immunogenic agent to lyophilization and recovering a lyophilized and stabilized form of such immunogenic...