US Patent Issued to QILU PUGET SOUND BIOTHERAPEUTICS on Oct. 14 for "Heterodimeric Fc for making fusion proteins and bispecific antibodies" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,816, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to QILU PUGET SOUND BIOTHERAPEUTICS Corp. (Bothell, Wash.).

"Heterodimeric Fc for making fusion proteins and bispecific antibodies" was invented by Zhi Liu (Shoreline, Wash.), Victor Hermand (Lynnwood, Wash.), Hua Liu (Shoreline, Wash.) and Wei Yan (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provide herein are variant-Fc-region fusion proteins, variant-Fc-region-antibodies and/or heterodimeric-variant-Fc-region-bispecific-antibodies optionally produced by a host cell line, nucleic acids encoding the variant-Fc-region fusion proteins, variant-Fc-region-antibodies and/or heterodimeric-variant-F...