US Patent Issued to VEROVACCINES on Nov. 18 for "Optimized host/vector system for producing protective mono-and multivalent subunit vaccines on the basis of the yeast Kluyveromyces lactis" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,562, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to VEROVACCINES GMBH (Halle/Saale, Germany).

"Optimized host/vector system for producing protective mono-and multivalent subunit vaccines on the basis of the yeast Kluyveromyces lactis" was invented by Hans Caspar Huhrlimann (Leipzig, Germany), Martina Behrens (Halle, Germany), Mandy Gebauer (Schwerin, Germany), Karin Breunig (Berlin) and Sven-Erik Behrens (Halle, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are recombinant Kluyveromyces lactis (K. lactis) yeasts which are capable of the highly efficient expression of one or more foreign proteins and are suitable for use as a vaccine fo...