US Patent Issued to Intervet on May 19 for "Swine influenza a virus vaccine comprising a nucleic acid construct having a specific order of genes" (Dutch, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,592, issued on May 19, was assigned to Intervet Inc. (Rahway, N.J.).

"Swine influenza a virus vaccine comprising a nucleic acid construct having a specific order of genes" was invented by Mark A. Mogler (Ames, Iowa) and Basav Hangalapura Nagaraj (Boxmeer, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a nucleic acid construct that encodes, in this order, a first Swine influenza A (IAV-S) hemagglutinin (HA) antigen of the Scot/94 lineage and a second Swine influenza A (IAV-S) hemagglutinin (HA) antigen of the Eurasian avian-like (EA) lineage, and a nucleic acid construct that encodes, in this order, a first...