US Patent Issued to Alector on May 13 for "Anti-sortilin antibodies and methods of use thereof" (California, New Hampshire, Vermont Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,277, issued on May 13, was assigned to Alector LLC (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Anti-sortilin antibodies and methods of use thereof" was invented by Tina Schwabe (San Francisco), Michael Kurnellas (San Francisco), Arnon Rosenthal (Woodside, Calif.), Robert Pejchal (Lebanon, N.H.) and Anthony B. Cooper (White River Junction, Vt.).

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, chimeric, affinity-matured, humanized antibodies, antibody fragments, etc., that specifically bind a Sortilin protein, e.g., human Sortilin or mammalian Sortilin, and have i...