US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois on Sept. 23 for "Vaccine and methods for detecting and preventing filariasis" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,939, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Ill.).

"Vaccine and methods for detecting and preventing filariasis" was invented by Ramaswamy Kalyanasundaram (Rockford, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is a multivalent immunogenic composition for immunizing an animal against filariasis. In some embodiments, the antigens of the multivalent immunogenic composition are protein-based, DNA-based, or a combination thereof. This invention also provides a method and kit for detecting a filarial nematode and determining vaccine efficacy."

The patent was filed on...