ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,888, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. (Princeton, N.J.).

"Methods of treating tumor" was invented by Prabhu Seshaiyer Bhagavatheeswaran (Hamden, Conn.), Nicholas Allan John Botwood (Princeton, N.J.), Han Chang (West Windsor, N.J.), William J. Geese (Pipersville, Pa.), Sabine Maier (Lawrenceville, N.J.), Giovanni Selvaggi (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Joseph Daniel Szustakowski (Pennington, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides a method for treating a subject afflicted with a tumor derived from a small cell lung cancer (SCLC) having a high tumor mutational burden (TMB) status comprising administ...