ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,679, issued on March 24, was assigned to Vedanta Biosciences Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Compositions and methods for the treatment of allergy" was invented by Rose L. Szabady (Cambridge, Mass.), Bernat Olle (Cambridge, Mass.) and Bruce Roberts (Framingham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are compositions and methods for the treatment of allergy, such as food allergy. Also provided herein are compositions and methods for modulating an immune response associated with allergy and/or inducing immune tolerance or desensitization to an allergy, such as a food allergy."

The patent was filed on April 19, 2021, under App...