ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,234,287, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Junten Bio Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Method for eliciting infectious immunological tolerance" was invented by Koichiro Uchida (Tokyo), Kazuyoshi Takeda (Tokyo) and Ko Okumura (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a novel technique relating to immunological tolerance. More specifically, the present inventor found for the first time that, in a technique for inducing immunological tolerance by administering an organ transplantation patient (a recipient) a cell preparation containing cells in which anergy is induced by an inhibitor inhibiting the interaction between CD80/CD...