US Patent Issued to ImmunityBio, NantCell on Dec. 9 for "Maximizing T-cell memory and compositions and methods therefor" (California, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,201, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to ImmunityBio Inc. (San Diego) and NantCell Inc. (Culver City, Calif.).

"Maximizing T-cell memory and compositions and methods therefor" was invented by Shahrooz Rabizadeh (Agoura Hills, Calif.), Kayvan Niazi (Culver City, Calif.), Patrick Soon-Shiong (Culver City, Calif.), Hing Wong (Weston, Fla.) and Wenxin Xu (Pembroke Pines, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Contemplated treatments and methods produce substantially increased quantities of memory T-cells and a persistent immune response by subcutaneous and/or subdermal co-administration of (1) a vector comprising a recombinant nucleic acid tha...