US Patent Issued to Allogene Therapeutics on July 22 for "Methods for transducing immune cells" (California, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,873, issued on July 22, was assigned to Allogene Therapeutics Inc. (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Methods for transducing immune cells" was invented by Todd Luman (Hayward, Calif.), Josergio Zaragoza (Daly City, Calif.), Abraham Germansderfer (Boca Raton, Fla.), Suma Rao (San Francisco), Yajin Ni (San Diego), Chupei Zhang (San Francisco) and Tom Tao Huang (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are improved methods for transducing immune cells, such as T cells, with retroviral vectors to express exogenous gene products, such as chimeric antigen receptors (CARs). Provided herein are methods that increase trans...