US Patent Issued to ALECTOR on June 3 for "Anti-TMEM106B antibodies and methods of use thereof" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,734, issued on June 3, was assigned to ALECTOR LLC (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Anti-TMEM106B antibodies and methods of use thereof" was invented by Arnon Rosenthal (Woodside, Calif.), Eric Brown (South San Francisco, Calif.), Tina Schwabe (San Francisco), Angie Yee (San Francisco) and Herve Rhinn (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is generally directed to compositions that include antibodies, e.g., monoclonal antibodies, antibody fragments, etc., that specifically bind a TMEM106B polypeptide, e.g., a mammalian TMEM106B or human TMEM106B, and use of such compositions in preventing, reducing risk, o...