ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,674, issued on July 1, was assigned to MIE UNIVERSITY (Tsu, Japan) and DAIICHI SANKYO COMPANY Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Bispecific antibody" was invented by Hiroshi Shiku (Tsu, Japan), Yasushi Akahori (Tsu, Japan), Kento Tanaka (Tokyo), Ayaka Yatsu (Tokyo), Junya Ichikawa (Tokyo), Toshiaki Ohtsuka (Tokyo), Shiho Kozuma (Tokyo), Ryuji Hashimoto (Tokyo), Makiko Nakayama (Tokyo), Naoya Shinozaki (Tokyo), Kensuke Nakamura (Tokyo), Ichiro Watanabe (Tokyo) and Shinji Furuzono (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An antibody that can be used as an anti-tumor agent and an anti-tumor agent comprises a molecule containing such an antibody. Such an antibo...