US Patent Issued to AskGene Pharma, Jiangsu AoSaiKang Ph on May 27 for "Antibodies and methods for making and using the same" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,413, issued on May 27, was assigned to AskGene Pharma Inc. and Jiangsu AoSaiKang Ph (Nanjing, China).

"Antibodies and methods for making and using the same" was invented by Yuefeng Lu (Newbury Park, Calif.), Kurt Shanebeck (Camarillo, Calif.), Lu Li (Camarillo, Calif.), Lei Liu (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), Shiwen Zhang (Camarillo, Calif.), Lan Yang (Camarillo, Calif.) and Jian-Feng Lu (Oak Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described and provided herein are novel antibodies for Claudin 18.2. Also described and provided are pharmaceutical compositions of the antibodies and methods of use for the treatment of cancer."

The patent ...