US Patent Issued to NGM Biopharmaceuticals on Aug. 5 for "Polynucleotides encoding human beta klotho antibodies or binding fragments thereof and methods of use thereof" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,312, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to NGM Biopharmaceuticals Inc. (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Polynucleotides encoding human beta klotho antibodies or binding fragments thereof and methods of use thereof" was invented by Kalyani Mondal (San Mateo, Calif.), Betty Chan Li (Millbrae, Calif.), Yu Chen (Foster City, Calif.), Taruna Arora (Palo Alto, Calif.), Hugo Matern (San Mateo, Calif.) and Wenyan Shen (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides binding proteins, such as antibodies or binding fragments thereof, that bind beta klotho, including human beta klotho, and methods of their use such...