ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,690, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to STICHTING WAGENINGEN RESEARCH (Wageningen, Netherlands).

"African swine fever virus vaccine" was invented by Petrus Theodorus Johannes Willemsen (Amsterdam) and Bernardus Petrus Hubertus Peeters (Lelystad, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention is directed to a recombinant nucleic acid molecule comprising an expression cassette encoding a polyepitope comprising T-cell antigens from proteins of African Swine Fever Virus. The invention further relates to a viral particle, comprising said recombinant nucleic acid molecule, and to a viral particle comprising B-cell antigens of Afric...