ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,478, issued on July 29, was assigned to Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC (Rahway, N.J.).
"Antibody neutralizing human respiratory syncytial virus" was invented by Kalpit A. Vora (Yardley, Pa.), Kara S. Cox (Harleysville, Pa.), Aimin Tang (Lansdale, Pa.), Zhifeng Chen (Warrington, Pa.), Daniel DiStefano (Harleysville, Pa.), Lan Zhang (Chalfont, Pa.) and Hua-Poo Su (Phoenixville, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to monoclonal antibodies which have high anti-RSV neutralizing titers. The invention further provides for isolated nucleic acids encoding the antibodies of the invention and host cells transformed therewi...