ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,030, issued on May 27, was assigned to ImmuneSensor Therapeutics Inc. (Dallas) and The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas).

"Antibody-sting agonist conjugates and their use in immunotherapy" was invented by Zhijian Chen (Dallas), Heping Shi (Coppell, Texas), Qi Wei (Dallas), Chuo Chen (Dallas), Lijun Sun (Dallas), Jian Qiu (Dallas) and Youtong Wu (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to, among other things, antibody-drug conjugates comprising a STING agonist cyclic di-nucleotide conjugated to an antibody, preparation methods therefor, and uses therefor."

The patent was f...