US Patent Issued to Providence Health & Services-Oregon on Dec. 2 for "Fusion polypeptides binding antibody Fc domains and integrin and methods of use" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,314, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Providence Health & Services-Oregon (Portland, Ore.).

"Fusion polypeptides binding antibody Fc domains and integrin and methods of use" was invented by Hong-Ming Hu (Portland, Ore.), Jaina Patel (Portland, Ore.) and Catherine Dinh (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Fusion polypeptides including at least one Fc binding domain linked to at least one integrin binding domain are provided. In some embodiments, the at least one Fc binding domain is one or more Fc binding domains from Protein A, Protein G, or Protein Z and the at least one integrin binding domain comprises one or more fibron...