US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS on March 17 for "Anthelmintic compositions and methods" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,129, issued on March 17, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS (Westborough, Mass.).

"Anthelmintic compositions and methods" was invented by Raffi Van Aroian (Worcester, Mass.) and Gary R. Ostroff (Worcester, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compositions and methods for treating or reducing the severity or likelihood of occurrence of a parasitic worm or helminth infection in a subject are described. The methods include administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of a killed or inactivated recombinant bacterium expressing a crystal protein such as a Bacillus thuringiensis crystal protein (Cry) in the cyt...