ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,478, issued on April 29, was assigned to Zoetis Services LLC (Parsippany, N.J.) and United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington).
"Foot-and-mouth disease vaccine" was invented by Paul Joseph Dominowski (Kalamazoo, Mich.), John Morgan Hardham (Kalamazoo, Mich.), James Alan Jackson (Kalamazoo, Mich.), Cyril Gerard Gay (Bethesda, Md.), Luis Leandro Rodriguez (Niantic, Conn.), Peter William Krug (East Setauket, N.Y.) and Aida Elizabeth Rieder (Westbrook, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compositions for prevention of Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) are provided, comprising an antigen component in ...