ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,862, issued on April 8, was assigned to Endocyte Inc. (West Lafayette, Ind.), Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.) and Seattle Children's Hospital (Seattle).

"Methods of use for CAR T cells" was invented by Philip Stewart Low (West Lafayette, Ind.), Haiyan Chu (West Lafayette, Ind.), Yingjuan June Lu (West Lafayette, Ind.), Christopher Paul Leamon (West Lafayette, Ind.), Leroy W. Wheeler II (West Lafayette, Ind.), Michael C. Jensen (Bainbridge Island, Wash.) and James Matthaei (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to methods of treating a patient with a cancer by administering to the pati...