US Patent Issued to Adimab on March 25 for "Polyclonal mixtures of antibodies, and methods of making and using them" (New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,679, issued on March 25, was assigned to Adimab LLC (Lebanon, N.H.).

"Polyclonal mixtures of antibodies, and methods of making and using them" was invented by Laura M. Walker (Lebanon, N.H.), Eric Krauland (Lebanon, N.H.) and Karl Dane Wittrup (Lebanon, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of broadening epitopic coverage of an antigen of interest, wherein a first sample of the antigen of interest is contacted with a first plurality of host cells collectively expressing a first library of antibodies. Host cells expressing antibodies that bind to the antigen are then collected from among the first plurality of host cells, and ...