US Patent Issued to CONTRAFECT, TRELLIS BIOSCIENCE on Dec. 9 for "Antibodies useful in passive influenza immunization, and compositions, combinations and methods for use thereof" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,245, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to CONTRAFECT Corp. (Yonkers, N.Y.) and TRELLIS BIOSCIENCE INC (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Antibodies useful in passive influenza immunization, and compositions, combinations and methods for use thereof" was invented by Angeles Estelles (Belmont, Calif.), Lawrence M. Kauvar (San Francisco), Adam Vigil (Yonkers, N.Y.) and Michael Wittekind (Yonkers, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Antibodies, compositions and methods are provided for treatment and prophylaxis of influenza virus. Antibodies and antigen-binding fragments are provided that bind near the HA0 maturation cleavage site consensus sequence o...