US Patent Issued to ASTELLAS PHARMA on Aug. 19 for "Antibody-drug complex containing toll-like receptor 7/8 dual agonist compound" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,536, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to ASTELLAS PHARMA INC. (Tokyo).

"Antibody-drug complex containing toll-like receptor 7/8 dual agonist compound" was invented by Michinori Akaiwa (Tokyo), Yohei Seki (Tokyo), Yinghua Wang (Tokyo), Javier Ramos Miguelez (Tokyo), Kei Ohnuki (Tokyo), Takashi Kamikubo (Tokyo), Toru Asano (Tokyo), Akio Kamikawa (Tokyo), Takashi Chaen (Tokyo), Rika Hoshi (Tokyo), Shinji Soga (Tokyo) and Chulwon Kwon (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An antibody-drug conjugate of formula (I) or salt thereof of formula I:may have Ab as an anti-CLDN6 antibody or an antigen-binding fragment thereof. The antibody-drug co...