ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,328, issued on April 7, was assigned to Intervet Inc. (Rahway, N.J.).
"Combination of vaccines to prophylactically treat a pig" was invented by Maarten Hendrik Witvliet (Oostrum, Netherlands) and Jacquelyn Horsington (Nijmegen, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention pertains to a combination of a first vaccine comprising anon-replicating immunogen of porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV-2) and a non-replicating immunogen of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae, and a second vaccine comprising a live attenuated porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) virus, for use in prophylactically treating a pig against an infection w...