ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,962, issued on July 15, was assigned to Immunomic Therapeutics Inc. (Rockville, Md.).

"Lamp constructs comprising cancer antigens" was invented by Teri Heiland (New Market, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides improved LAMP Constructs comprising specific fragments of the LAMP lumenal domain to deliver cancer antigens to immune cells for enhanced processing. These LAMP Constructs can be used for the treatment of disease and in particular hyperproliferative disorders and/or cancer. The improved LAMP Constructs allow for presentation of properly configured three dimensional epitopes for production of an immu...