US Patent Issued to Insigna on July 28 for "Prevention of estrus in sow and ruminants" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,125, issued on July 28, was assigned to Insigna Inc. (Champaign, Ill.).

"Prevention of estrus in sow and ruminants" was invented by CheMyong Ko (Champaign, Ill.), ChanJin Park (Savoy, Ill.), Rex Allen Hess (Champaign, Ill.) and Po-Ching Patrick Lin (Champaign, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present invention provide a pharmaceutical intervention in neonatal to infantile pigs, ruminants, and other livestock that inhibits the activation of the HPG axis, growth of the gonads and inhibits gonadal production of sex hormones, which will prevent the estrous cycle until the age at slaughter. The invention comprises tr...