US Patent Issued to REPUBLIC OF KOREA (ANIMAL AND PLANT QUARANTINE AGENCY) on Sept. 29 for "Immune adjuvant and vaccine composition including the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,284, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to REPUBLIC OF KOREA (ANIMAL AND PLANT QUARANTINE AGENCY) (Gimcheon-si, South Korea).

"Immune adjuvant and vaccine composition including the same" was invented by Minja Lee (Yangsan-si, South Korea), Hyundong Jo (Gimcheon-si, South Korea), Su-Mi Kim (Jung-gu, South Korea), Byounghan Kim (Seocho-gu, South Korea) and Jong-Hyeon Park (Gimcheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present inventors have found that innate immune response and T cell exhaustion pathway are more greatly over-expressed in pigs than cattle, such that the pigs are less likely to form adaptive and humoral immu...