US Patent Issued to LOYOTA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, UNM Rainforest Innovations on Oct. 21 for "Compositions comprising antibodies or antibody fragments which bind the P2X4 receptor" (New Mexico Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,440, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to LOYOTA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO (Maywood, Ill.) and UNM Rainforest Innovations (Albuquerque, N.M.).

"Compositions comprising antibodies or antibody fragments which bind the P2X4 receptor" was invented by Karin Westlund High (Albuquerque, N.M.), Ravi Venkata Durvasula (Albuquerque, N.M.) and Adinarayana Kunamneni (Albuquerque, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composition for treating pain includes an antibody or antibody fragment that specifically binds to a receptor involved in pain. In some embodiments, the receptor is a P2X family receptor such as, for example, P2X4. In some embodiments, th...