US Patent Issued to BHARAT BIOTECH INTERNATIONAL on March 31 for "Combined norovirus and rotavirus vaccine composition and methods of preparation" (Indian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,144, issued on March 31, was assigned to BHARAT BIOTECH INTERNATIONAL Ltd. (Hyderabad, India).

"Combined norovirus and rotavirus vaccine composition and methods of preparation" was invented by Mithu Raychaudhuri (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to vaccine composition comprising inactivated rotavirus antigen, methods of inactivation and preparation of vaccine composition thereof. The present invention also discloses a combination vaccine comprising inactivated rotavirus antigen and norovirus antigen, and vaccine preparations thereof."

The patent was filed on Jan. 6, 2021, under Applicati...