ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,486, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Juno Therapeutics Inc. (Seattle) and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (New York).

"Chimeric antigen receptors specific for B-cell maturation antigen and encoding polynucleotides" was invented by Blythe D. Sather (Seattle), Eric L. Smith (New York), Rupesh Amin (Seattle), Aye Chen (Seattle), Kimberly Harrington (Seattle), Collin Hauskins (Seattle), Erik Hess (Seattle), Cyr De Imus (Seattle), Jon Jones (Seattle), Audrey Olshefsky (Seattle), Stefan Ponko (Seattle), Ruth Salmon (Seattle), Semih Tareen (Seattle), Rebecca Wu (Seattle), Yan Chen (Seattle), Steven M. Shamah (Seattle), Csaba Pazmany (Seattle), Jui Dutta-Simmons (Seattle), Mar...