US Patent Issued to University of Connecticut on May 12 for "Mycoplasma vaccine composition and methods" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,957, issued on May 12, was assigned to University of Connecticut (Farmington, Conn.).

"Mycoplasma vaccine composition and methods" was invented by Steven M. Szczepanek (Coventry, Conn.), Steven J. Geary (Mansfield, Conn.) and Edan R. Tulman (Mansfield, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are vaccine compositions, methods of manufacture thereof, and methods of treating or preventing certain bacterial infections in humans and other mammals. For example, described are compositions comprising bacterial cell extracts that have undergone pretreatment such that lipid moieties have been cleaved from bacterial lipoproteins, thereby ...