US Patent Issued to BIOVENT INTERNATIONAL, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON on July 29 for "Combination and use of antibodies" (Swedish, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,498, issued on July 29, was assigned to BIOVENT INTERNATIONAL AB (Lund, Sweden) and UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON (Southampton, Great Britain).

"Combination and use of antibodies" was invented by Bjorn Frendeus (Lund, Sweden), Ingrid Teige (Lund, Sweden), Linda Martensson (Bjarred, Sweden), Mark Cragg (Southampton, Great Britain), Stephen Beers (Southampton, Great Britain), Ali Roghanian (Southampton, Great Britain) and Robert Oldham (Southampton, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is the use of a first antibody molecule that specifically binds FcGammaRIIb via its Fab region, but lacks Fc region or has reduced binding...