US Patent Issued to ABTIS, RESEARCH & BUSINESS FOUNDATION SUNGKYUNKWAN UNIVERSITY on May 13 for "Compound for preparation of antibody-payload conjugate and use thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,019, issued on May 13, was assigned to ABTIS Co. LTD. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and RESEARCH & BUSINESS FOUNDATION SUNGKYUNKWAN UNIVERSITY (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Compound for preparation of antibody-payload conjugate and use thereof" was invented by Ju Hwan Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Tae Jin Lee (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Sang Jeon Chung (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Young Geun Lee (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Jin Woo Seo (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to a novel linker for use in bioconjugation, comprising two or more electrophilic carbon atoms of a carbonyl grou...