ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,473, issued on April 29, was assigned to Akeso Biopharma Inc. (Guangdong, China).

"Anti-IL-1Beta antibody and pharmaceutical composition thereof and use of same" was invented by Baiyong Li (Guangdong, China), Yu Xia (Guangdong, China), Peng Zhang (Guangdong, China) and Zhongmin Maxwell Wang (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention belongs to the field of immunology, and relates to an anti-IL-1Beta antibody and pharmaceutical composition thereof and use of the same. Specifically, the present invention relates to an anti-IL-1Beta antibody or an antigen-binding fragment thereof, wherein a heavy chain variabl...