ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,944, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SpyBiotech Ltd. (Oxford, Great Britain).

"Vaccine composition" was invented by Sumi Biswas (Oxford, Great Britain), Jing Jin (Oxford, Great Britain), Rebecca Alice Dabbs (Oxford, Great Britain) and Genevieve Marie Catherine Labbe (Oxford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to vaccine compositions, most notably vaccine compositions wherein the antigenic component is large, for example over 50 kDa, or multimeric, i.e. comprised of subunits. Such antigenic components are of particular interest, because they may represent antigenic components from pathogens tha...