US Patent Issued to The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture on July 28 for "Bee antiviral compositions" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,603, issued on July 28, was assigned to The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington).

"Bee antiviral compositions" was invented by Jay D. Evans (Harwood, Md.), Yanping Chen (Boyds, Md.), James Tauber (Rockville, Md.) and Evan Palmer-Young (Greenbelt, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to compositions for reducing viral load in bees, the compositions comprising at least one plant secondary metabolite and a carrier comprising at least one sweetener, kits comprising such compositions, and methods of using such compositions to reduce viral load in bees."

The patent was f...