US Patent Issued to R.P. Scherer Technologies on May 13 for "Antibody conjugates and methods of making and using the same" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,021, issued on May 13, was assigned to R.P. Scherer Technologies LLC (Carson City, Nev.).

"Antibody conjugates and methods of making and using the same" was invented by Yun Cheol Kim (Walnut Creek, Calif.), Chao Bai Huang (San Leandro, Calif.), Penelope M. Drake (Castro Valley, Calif.) and David Rabuka (Kensington, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Antibodies that include a sulfatase motif-containing tag in a constant region of an immunoglobulin (Ig) heavy chain polypeptide are disclosed. The sulfatase motif can be converted by a formylglycine-generating enzyme (FGE) to produce a formylglycine (fGly)-modified Ig heavy chain polyp...