US Patent Issued on April 21 for "Methods for growing African swine fever virus in fetal porcine lung alveolar macrophage cells" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,803, issued on April 21.

"Methods for growing African swine fever virus in fetal porcine lung alveolar macrophage cells" was invented by Federico A. Zuckermann (Champaign, Ill.), Linda Kathleen Dixon (Surrey, Great Britain), Maria Raquel Seica Portugal (Surrey, Great Britain) and Lynnette Claire Goatley (Hampshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generating progeny of an African swine fever (ASF) virus includes providing an isolated or purified fetal porcine lung alveolar macrophage cell capable of replicating the ASF virus, wherein the cell is cultured for at least 5 passages; exposing the cell to the ASF ...