US Patent Issued to KYOWA KIRIN, KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY on May 13 for "Antibody which binds to myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,268, issued on May 13, was assigned to KYOWA KIRIN Co. LTD. (Tokyo) and KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY (Kagoshima, Japan).

"Antibody which binds to myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein" was invented by Nobuaki Takahashi (Tokyo), Ryosuke Nakano (Tokyo), Sayaka Maeda (Tokyo) and Yuji Ito (Kagoshima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an antibody which binds to myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG), an antibody fragment thereof, a hybridoma which produces the antibody or the antibody fragment, a nucleic acid containing a nucleotide sequence which encodes the antibody or the antibody fragment, a transformant cell cont...