ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,491, issued on July 29, was assigned to Bio-Thera Solutions Ltd. (Guangzhou, China).

"Anti-TIGIT immunosuppressant and application thereof" was invented by Junjie Huang (Guangzhou, China), Xiaoyun Wu (Guangzhou, China), Zhenqian Xu (Guangzhou, China), Shide Liang (Guangzhou, China), Shengfeng Li (Guangzhou, China), Jin-Chen Yu (Guangzhou, China) and Xianming Huang (Guangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides an anti-TIGIT immunosuppressant and use thereof. The immunosuppressant can bind to the extracellular region of human TIGIT, and can be used for treating diseases such as a cancer."

The patent w...