US Patent Issued to lovance Biotherapeutics on Feb. 18 for "Processes for production of tumor infiltrating lymphocytes and uses of the same in immunotherapy" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,226,522, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to lovance Biotherapeutics Inc. (San Carlos, Calif.).

"Processes for production of tumor infiltrating lymphocytes and uses of the same in immunotherapy" was invented by Seth Wardell (Tampa, Fla.) and Maritza Lienlaf Moreno (Tampa, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides improved and/or shortened methods for expanding TILs and producing therapeutic populations of TILs, including novel methods for expanding TIL populations in a closed system that lead to improved efficacy, improved phenotype, and increased metabolic health of the TILs in a shorter time period, while allowi...