ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,836, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to ARCUS BIOSCIENCES INC. (Hayward, Calif.).

"Parenterally administered immune enhancing drugs" was invented by Juan Carlos Jaen (Burlingame, Calif.), Jenna Leigh Jeffrey (Oakland, Calif.), Lixia Jin (San Mateo, Calif.), Jaroslaw Kalisiak (Mountain View, Calif.), Joyson J. Karakunnel (Potomac, Md.), Kenneth V. Lawson (San Francisco), Manmohan Reddy Leleti (Dublin, Calif.) and Jay Patrick Powers (Pacifica, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of identifying compounds that modulate the conversion of AMP to adenosine by 5'-nucleotidase, ecto, and that possess particular pharmacokinetic charact...