ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,626, issued on March 3, was assigned to Intervet Inc. (Rahway, N.J.).
"Serum free intracellular pathogen vaccine" was invented by Joseph Koumans (Wageningen, Netherlands), Petter Frost (Radal, Norway) and Maria Forlenza (Wageningen, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vaccine composition comprising a virus antigen wherein the composition comprises less than 5% serum, wherein the virus antigen is a whole virus or derived from a whole virus, the vaccine composition reduces, prevents or avoids cross-stitch spinal deformity in the treated animal. Said vaccine composition for use in a method of treating a disease caused by the in...