US Patent Issued to The Penn State Research Foundation, The Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs acting through the Animal and Plant on Aug. 4 for "Diagnostic reagents" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,090, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to The Penn State Research Foundation (State College, Pa.) and The Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs acting through the Animal and Plant (Surrey, Great Britain).

"Diagnostic reagents" was invented by Vivek Kapur (State College, Pa.), Sreenidhi Srinivasan (State College, Pa.), Hans Vordermeier (Surrey, Great Britain) and Gareth Jones (Surrey, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a skin test diagnostic reagent comprising: at least one 40mer polypeptide consisting of any one of SEQ ID NOs: 1, 3 or 4; at least one 40mer polypeptide consisting of any one...