US Patent Issued to The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture, Kansas State University Research Foundation, Triad National Security on Oct. 28 for "Development of mosaic vaccines against foot and mouth disease virus serotype O" (Connecticut, New York, New Mexico Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,767, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington), Kansas State University Research Foundation (Manhattan, Kan.) and Triad National Security LLC (Los Alamos, N.M.).

"Development of mosaic vaccines against foot and mouth disease virus serotype O" was invented by Aida E. Rieder (Westbrook, Conn.), Katherine M. Pflaum (Middletown, Conn.), Fayna C. Diaz San Segundo (Blue Point, N.Y.), William M. Fischer (Los Alamos, N.M.) and Tatjana Sitt (Essex, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Synthetic foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) mosaic polypeptides, and nuclei...