US Patent Issued to The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture, Washington State University, James Cook University on May 26 for "Transmission-blocking vaccine against Babesia" (Australian, American, Egyptian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,355, issued on May 26, was assigned to The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington), Washington State University (Pullman, Wash.) and James Cook University (Cairns, Australia).

"Transmission-blocking vaccine against Babesia" was invented by Carlos E Suarez (Pullman, Wash.), Jacob M Laughery (Pullman, Wash.), Reginaldo Gaspar Bastos (Pullman, Wash.), Marta Gomes Da Silva (Tubingen, Germany), Heba Fathy Alzan (Harm, Egypt), Brian M Cooke (Cairns, Australia) and Vignesh A Rathinasamy (Cairns, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a Babesia antigen comprising...