ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,212, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Aktis Oncology Inc. (Boston).

"Nectin-4 binding miniproteins, conjugates and uses thereof" was invented by William C. Blackwell III (Raleigh, N.C.), Michael Lawrence Doligalski (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Paul L. Feldman (Durham, N.C.), Isaiah Nathaniel Gober (Durham, N.C.), Brian Scott Goodman (Boston), Hyun Joo Kil (Cary, N.C.), Jeff Kovacs (Raleigh, N.C.), Dasa Lipovsek (Pepperell, Mass.), Trevor Price (Durham, N.C.), Matthew Roden (Princeton, N.J.), James M. Way (Raleigh, N.C.) and Ved Srivastava (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are polypeptides and conjugates thereof, ...