ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,216, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to I.D.BIO. (Cheongju-si, South Korea).
"Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus" was invented by Yeo-Jeong Choi (Cheongju-si, South Korea), Su-Jin Park (Cheongju-si, South Korea), Young-Il Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Min-Ah Yu (Sejong, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a novel genotype of severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome viruses and use thereof as an immunogenic composition. The severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome viruses of the present invention are genetically different from conventional severe fever with thrombocytopeni...