US Patent Issued to Kite Pharma on Sept. 2 for "Chimeric polypeptides and uses thereof" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,404,305, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Kite Pharma Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Chimeric polypeptides and uses thereof" was invented by Stuart A. Sievers (Van Nuys, Calif.) and Jed J. W. Wiltzius (Winchester, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides novel peptides (e.g., linkers) and polypeptide compositions comprising the linkers (e.g., fusion proteins) and methods of using the polypeptide compositions. Peptides (e.g., linkers) are useful as tags and for engineering fusion proteins (e.g., antigen binding molecules, scFv). Polypeptide linkers described herein facilitate flexibility of linked peptides allowing for...