US Patent Issued to Zoetis Services, Iowa State University Research Foundation on June 17 for "Porcine epidemic diarrhea virus strains and immunogenic compositions therefrom" (Iowa, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,813, issued on June 17, was assigned to Zoetis Services LLC (Parsippany, N.J.) and Iowa State University Research Foundation Inc. (Ames, Iowa).

"Porcine epidemic diarrhea virus strains and immunogenic compositions therefrom" was invented by Jianqiang Zhang (Ames, Iowa), Qi Chen (Ames, Iowa), Phillip Gauger (Ames, Iowa), Darin Madson (Ames, Iowa), John Morgan Hardham (Parsippany, N.J.), Meggan Bandrick (Parsippany, N.J.), Jay Gregory Calvert (Parsippany, N.J.), James Richard Thompson (Parsippany, N.J.), Mira Ivanova Stoeva (Parsippany, N.J.) and Walter Valdez (Parsippany, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is di...