ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,263, issued on July 29, was assigned to DAIICHI SANKYO COMPANY Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Cyclic dinucleotide derivative based antibody-drug conjugates" was invented by Toshifumi Tsuda (Tokyo), Toshiki Tabuchi (Tokyo), Hideaki Watanabe (Tokyo), Hiroyuki Kobayashi (Tokyo), Masayuki Ishizaki (Tokyo), Kyoko Hara (Tokyo), Teiji Wada (Tokyo) and Masami Arai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Desired is development of novel CDN derivatives having STING agonist activity; and a therapeutic agents and/or therapeutic methods using the novel CDN derivatives for diseases associated with STING agonist activity. Further desired is development of a therapeu...