US Patent Issued to Washington University, University of South Florida on Feb. 10 for "Compositions comprising CelTOS immunogens and antibodies and method of use thereof" (Missouri, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,441, issued on Feb. 10, 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 Naraj H. Tolia (St. Louis), John Jimah (St. Louis), Hirdesh Kumar (St. Louis), John Adams (Tampa, Fla.), Francis Ntumngia (Tampa, Fla.) and Samantha Barnes (Tampa, Fla.).

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 Cytauxzoon CelTOS. The immunogenic composition ma...