ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,769, issued on July 21, was assigned to GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals SA (Rixensart, Belgium).
"Vaccine" was invented by Maria Paula Carranza Sandmeier (Schlieren, Switzerland), Rainer Follador (Schlieren, Switzerland), Veronica Gambillara Fonck (Schlieren, Switzerland), Stefan Jochen Kemmler (Schlieren, Switzerland), Patricia Martin Killias (Schlieren, Switzerland), Michael Thomas Kowarik (Schlieren, Switzerland), Gerd Martin Lipowsky (Schlieren, Switzerland), Gerald Johann Posch (Schlieren, Switzerland), Fabio Serventi (Schlieren, Switzerland) and Dominique Nicolas Sirena (Schlieren, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The pre...