US Patent Issued to Regeneron Pharmaceuticals on July 1 for "Methods for producing antigen-binding proteins against foreign antigens" (Maryland, New York, Washington, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,801, issued on July 1, was assigned to Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Tarrytown, N.Y.).

"Methods for producing antigen-binding proteins against foreign antigens" was invented by Vera Voronina (North Bethesda, Md.), Lynn Macdonald (Harrison, N.Y.), Marine Prissette (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Ka-Man Venus Lai (Seattle), Ashok Badithe (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Andrew J. Murphy (Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y.), Gustavo Droguett (New City, N.Y.), David Frendewey (New York) and Brian Zambrowicz (Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and compositions are provided for generating antigen-binding proteins against a foreign antigen of interest...