ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,402, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to INDAPTA THERAPEUTICS INC. (Houston).

"Methods for expansion of natural killer (NK) cell subset and related compositions and methods" was invented by Austin Bigley (Houston), Ronald Martell (San Francisco) and Guy Dipierro (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are methods for ex vivo expansion of a specialized subset of natural killer (NK) cells, and compositions containing such NK cells. Also provided are methods for identifying or detecting a specialized subset of NK cells. Also provided are methods for treating diseases and conditions such as cancer using provided compositi...