ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,901, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to MIE UNIVERSITY (Tsu, Japan).
"T-cell receptor" was invented by Hiroshi Shiku (Tsu, Japan), Yoshihiro Miyahara (Tsu, Japan), Keisuke Fujii (Tsu, Japan), Tatsuro Jo (Nagasaki, Japan) and Hiroyuki Kishi (Toyama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present invention is to provide a technique for preventing or treating HTLV-1-associated diseases, such as ATL, a material for use in the technique, a method for screening the material, and the like. The present invention provides a TCR screening method comprising sorting HTLV-1-derived antigen-recognizing cells from cells derived from ...