US Patent Issued to AGRIVIDA on March 3 for "Immunomodulating transgenic plants and related methods" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,660, issued on March 3, was assigned to AGRIVIDA INC. (Woburn, Mass.).

"Immunomodulating transgenic plants and related methods" was invented by R. Michael Raab (Arlington, Mass.), Oleg Bougri (Winchester, Mass.), Matthew Parker (Cambridge, Mass.) and Philip A. Lessard (Framingham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The transgenic plants expressing one or more antagonist IL-10R peptides and anti-IL-10 single domain antibodies that stimulate or modulate the immune system and improve gastrointestinal physiology of an animal fed the transgenic plants or tissues thereof and the genes encoding the antagonist IL-10R peptides and anti-IL-1...