US Patent Issued to NGM Biopharmaceuticals on March 4 for "LAIR-1-binding agents and methods of use thereof" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,899, issued on March 4, was assigned to NGM Biopharmaceuticals Inc. (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"LAIR-1-binding agents and methods of use thereof" was invented by Suzanne Christine Crawley (Brisbane, Calif.), Bin Fan (South San Francisco, Calif.), Betty Chan Li (Millbrae, Calif.), Lee Benjamin Rivera (South San Francisco, Calif.), James Robert Sissons (South San Francisco, Calif.), Jonathan Sitrin (South San Francisco, Calif.), Yan Wang (Foster City, Calif.) and Xuan Zhao (South San Francisco, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides binding agents, such as antibodies, that specifically bind LAIR-1, in...