ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,345, issued on July 8, was assigned to Byondis B.V. (Nijmegen, Netherlands).

"Dual conjugation process for preparing antibody-drug conjugates" was invented by Rudy Gerardus Elisabeth Coumans (Nijmegen, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a process for preparing antibody-drug conjugates wherein therapeutic moieties are conjugated to one or more engineered cysteines as well as to one or more reduced interchain cysteines via a cleavable or non-cleavable linker."

The patent was filed on May 24, 2023, under Application No. 18/323,013.

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