US Patent Issued to MEDIMMUNE, HUMABS BIOMED on Dec. 9 for "Neutralizing anti-influenza a antibodies and uses thereof" (Swiss, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,240, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to MEDIMMUNE LLC (Gaithersburg, Md.) and HUMABS BIOMED SA (Bellinzona, Switzerland).

"Neutralizing anti-influenza a antibodies and uses thereof" was invented by Ebony Benjamin (Gaithersburg, Md.), Nicole Kallewaard-Lelay (Gaithersburg, Md.), Josephine Mary McAuliffe (Gaithersburg, Md.), Frances Palmer-Hill (Gaithersburg, Md.), Leslie Wachter (Gaithersburg, Md.), Andy Yuan (Gaithersburg, Md.), Qing Zhu (Gaithersburg, Md.), Davide Corti (Bellinzona, Switzerland), Antonio Lanzavecchia (Bellinzona, Switzerland), Barbara Guarino (Bellinzona, Switzerland) and Anna DeMarco (Bellinzona, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Paten...