US Patent Issued to Chugai Seiyaku on July 29 for "Heterodimerized polypeptide" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,511, issued on July 29, was assigned to Chugai Seiyaku K.K. (Tokyo).

"Heterodimerized polypeptide" was invented by Futa Mimoto (Shizuoka, Japan), Taichi Kuramochi (Shizuoka, Japan), Tomoyuki Igawa (Shizuoka, Japan), Meiri Kawazoe (Shizuoka, Japan), Hitoshi Katada (Shizuoka, Japan), Hirotake Shiraiwa (Shizuoka, Japan) and Shojiro Kadono (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present inventors produced a heterodimerized polypeptide having an Fc region formed from two polypeptides with different amino acid sequences (a first polypeptide and a second polypeptide), and succeeded in producing a heterodimerized polypeptide cont...