ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,371, issued on March 25, was assigned to Hoffman-La Roche Inc. (Little Falls, N.J.).
"Stabilized immunoglobulin domains" was invented by Laura Deak Codarri (Schlieren, Switzerland), Stefan Dengl (Penzberg, Germany), Jens Fischer (Penzberg, Germany), Thomas Hofer (Schlieren, Switzerland), Laurent Lariviere (Penzberg, Germany), Ekkehard Moessner (Schlieren, Switzerland), Stefan Seeber (Penzberg, Germany), Pablo Umana (Schlieren, Switzerland) and Anne-Claire Zagdoun (Schlieren, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates autonomous VH domains (aVH) with cysteines in positions 52a and 71 or in positions 33 and 52 in...