Patents by Inventor Sophie E C Leary

Sophie E C Leary has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Vaccines for plague
    Patent number: 5985285
    Abstract: A method of protecting a human or animal body from the effects of infection with Y. pestis is provided comprising administering to the body a vaccine including Yersinia pestis V antigen and Yersinia pestis F1 antigens or a protective epitopic part of each of these in a form other than whole Y. Pestis organisms. Preferably the antigens are administered in the form of a live vaccine or as recombinantly produced isolated and/or purified proteins. DNA encoding the whole or part of the F1 antigen and DNA encoding the whole or part of the V antigen may be used directly as a agnetic vaccine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1999
    Assignee: The Secretary of State for Defence in Her Britanic Majesty's Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
    Inventors: Richard W Titball, Ethel D Williamson, Sophie E C Leary, Petra C F Oyston, Alice M Bennett