ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,090, issued on June 17, was assigned to Molecular Partners AG (Zurich-Schlieren, Switzerland).

"Multispecific proteins" was invented by Nicolo Rigamonti (Zurich), Clara Domke (Dietikon, Switzerland), Valerie Perrine Calabro (Bergdietikon, Switzerland), Pamela Anna Trail Smith (Mystic, Conn.), Victor Levitsky (Birmensdorf, Switzerland) and Niina Elisabet Veitonmaki (Leuven, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to multispecific proteins comprising designed ankyrin repeat domains with binding specificity for different targets, such as, e.g. CD40 and FAP. In addition, the present disclosure relates to nuc...