US Patent Issued to ALX Oncology on Sept. 2 for "Antibodies against signal-regulatory protein alpha and methods of use" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,404,340, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to ALX Oncology Inc. (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Antibodies against signal-regulatory protein alpha and methods of use" was invented by Jaume Pons (San Francisco), Bang Janet Sim (South San Francisco, Calif.), Hong Wan (Foster City, Calif.), Tracy Chia-Chien Kuo (San Carlos, Calif.), Steven Elliot Kauder (San Mateo, Calif.), William Don Harriman (Alameda, Calif.) and Shelley Izquierdo (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein, inter alia, are isolated antibodies that bind an extracellular domain of a human SIRP-Alpha v1 polypeptide (e.g., the D1 domain), an extracellular...