US Patent Issued to Intervet on Sept. 1 for "Vaccine against Heamophilus parasuis" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,885, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Intervet Inc. (Rahway, N.J.).

"Vaccine against Heamophilus parasuis" was invented by Antonius Arnoldus Christiaan Jacobs (Kessel, Netherlands), Theodora Johanna Van Kasteren-Westerneng (Arnhem, Netherlands) and Johanna Jacoba Elisabeth Bijlsma (Nijmegen, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention pertains to a serine protease antigen which induces antibodies against a protein having at least 69% sequence identity with the Haemophilus parasuis protein according to SEQ ID No: 1, for use in a prophylactic method to protect a pig against an infection with Haemophilus parasuis by admin...