ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,311, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Portsmouth Merger Sub II LLC (Boston).

"Anti-MARCO antibodies and uses thereof" was invented by Nadine Jahchan (San Carlos, Calif.), Michel Streuli (Atherton, Calif.), Xi Yang (Hillsborough, Calif.), Linda Liang (Mountain View, Calif.), Venkataraman Sriram (Berkeley, Calif.), Joshua Pollack (Richmond, Calif.), Kara Mojica (Dublin, Calif.), Vladislava Juric (San Mateo, Calif.), Linnea Haeggblom (San Francisco), Leonard G. Presta (San Francisco) and Sayantan Mitra (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are anti-MARCO antibodies. Provided are also methods of generating...