US Patent Issued to Georgia Tech Research on Sept. 23 for "Antibodies that bind to natively folded myocilin" (Maryland, Georgia, Florida, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,441, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Georgia Tech Research Corp. (Atlanta).

"Antibodies that bind to natively folded myocilin" was invented by Raquel L. Lieberman (Atlanta), Shannon E. Hill (Lutz, Fla.), Athena Patterson-Orazem (Gaithersburg, Md.), Jennifer A. Maynard (Austin, Texas), Ahlam Qerqez (Austin, Texas) and Laura Azouz Yuan (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Myocilin-binding agents including antibodies and antigen binding fragments thereof and fusion proteins that immunospecifically bind the coiled-coil domain of myocilin but do not bind to misfolded myocilin are provided herein. The disclosed antibodies and...