ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,330, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Phadia AB (Uppsala, Sweden).
"Allergen" was invented by Jonas Lidholm (Knivsta, Sweden), Lars Mattsson (Uppsala, Sweden), Angelica Ehrenberg (Uppsala, Sweden), Hakan Larsson (Uppsala, Sweden) and Jonas Ostling (Uppsala, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to the field of allergens and more specifically to a novel isolated allergen from the species Cupressaceae shown to be a primary sensitizer for severe peach allergy mediated by the protein Pru p7. The allergen is homologous with Pru P7 in peach, a protein belonging to the Gibberelin Regulating Proteins (GRPs). The...