Patents by Inventor Tian-Long Lin

Tian-Long Lin 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).

  • Diagnostic and protective antigen gene sequences of ichthyophthirius
    Patent number: 7026156
    Abstract: A novel i-antigen protein from Ichthyophthirius multifiliis is effective to induce a protective immune response in fish. The invention includes antigenic and membrane-targeting sequences of i-antigen proteins, nucleic acid molecules that encode antigenic or membrane-targeting portions of i-antigen proteins, DNA and protein subunit vaccines, methods of inducing an immune response in fish and methods for detection and characterization of I. multifiliis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2006
    Assignees: The University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc., Cornell Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Theodore G. Clark, Harry W. Dickerson, Jr., Tian-Long Lin