ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,345, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Qilu Pharmaceutical Co. LTD. (Shandong, China).

"Composition comprising aflibercept and a variant thereof, and related methods and uses" was invented by Bo Pan (Jinan, China), Yue Yu (Jinan, China), Guijiang Wang (Jinan, China), Jianmin Fan (Jinan, China), Jiulin Wang (Jinan, China), Zhenming An (Jinan, China), Qingmin Wang (Jinan, China), Daoyuan Li (Jinan, China), Jianjun Zhang (Jinan, China), Chuanlei Liu (Jinan, China), Feifei Liu (Jinan, China), Huanlan Zheng (Jinan, China), Peng Wan (Jinan, China) and Bo Xie (Jinan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a composition comprising a...