US Patent Issued to BicycleTx on Nov. 4 for "Bicyclic peptide ligands specific for Nectin-4" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,974, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to BicycleTx Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Bicyclic peptide ligands specific for Nectin-4" was invented by Paul Beswick (Cambridge, Great Britain), Liuhong Chen (Cambridge, Great Britain), Gemma Elizabeth Mudd (Cambridge, Great Britain), Peter Park (Lexington, Mass.), Katerine Van Rietschoten (Cambridge, Great Britain), Michael Rigby (Saffron Walden, Great Britain), Stephen Blakemore (Littleton, Mass.), Tara Gelb (Cambridge, Mass.) and Nicholas Keen (Carlisle, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to polypeptides which are covalently bound to molecular scaffolds such...