ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,184, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Washington University (St. Louis) and University of South Florida (Tampa, Fla.).

"Compositions comprising CelTOS immunogens and antibodies and method of use thereof" was invented by Niraj Tolia (St. Louis), John Jimah (St. Louis), Nichole Salinas (St. Loius, Mo.), Darya Urusova (St. Louis), John Adams (Tampa, Fla.), Shulin Xu (Tampa, Fla.), Allison Roth (Tampa, Fla.) and Hirdesh Kumar (St. Louis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides immunogenic compositions and methods for vaccination with a CelTOS immunogen. The immunogenic composition comprises Babesia, Theileria or C...