US Patent Issued to PFIZER, The Brigham and Women's Hospital on Oct. 21 for "Interferon beta antibodies and uses thereof" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,439, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to PFIZER INC. (New York) and The Brigham and Women's Hospital Inc. (Boston).

"Interferon beta antibodies and uses thereof" was invented by Stefano V. Gulla (Boston), Christine Huard (Somerville, Mass.), Janet Elizabeth Buhlmann (Brookline, Mass.), Juan Carlos Almagro (Cambridge, Mass.), Sreekumar R. Kodangattil (Lexington, Mass.), Steven A. Greenberg (Newton, Mass.), Edward Roland Lavallie (Harvard, Mass.), Eric M. Bennett (Arlington, Mass.), Lidia Mosyak (Newton, Mass.), James Perry Hall (Stow, Mass.) and Anthony John Coyle (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to antibodi...