US Patent Issued to Ajou University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation on July 15 for "Heterodimeric Fc-fused cytokine and pharmaceutical composition comprising the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,964, issued on July 15, was assigned to Ajou University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Heterodimeric Fc-fused cytokine and pharmaceutical composition comprising the same" was invented by Yong Sung Kim (Suwon, South Korea), Keunok Jung (Suwon, South Korea), Ji Hee Ha (Daegu, South Korea), Dong Ki Choi (Daejeon, South Korea), Hye Ji Choi (Suwon, South Korea) and Ye Jin Kim (Busan, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a heterodimeric Fc-fused protein comprising a first Fc region and a second Fc region of an immunoglobulin Fc pair and a physiologically active prot...