US Patent Issued to KOREA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF BIOSCIENCE AND BIOTECHNOLOGY on Oct. 7 for "Method for producing immune cells and use thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,117, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to KOREA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF BIOSCIENCE AND BIOTECHNOLOGY (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method for producing immune cells and use thereof" was invented by Yee Sook Cho (Daejeon, South Korea), Han-Seop Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Jae Yun Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Binna Seol (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to: a method for producing immunocytes, specifically induced natural killer T (iNKT) cells that are induced by direct reprogramming of isolated somatic cells, and chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-iNKT cells into which a CAR gene encoding a CAR is i...