US Patent Issued to REGENERON PHARMACEUTICALS on July 29 for "Methods for obtaining antibodies that bind transmembrane proteins and cells that produce the same" (New York, New Jersey, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,487, issued on July 29, was assigned to REGENERON PHARMACEUTICALS INC. (Tarrytown, N.Y.).

"Methods for obtaining antibodies that bind transmembrane proteins and cells that produce the same" was invented by Gang Chen (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.), Ergang Shi (Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.), Wen-Yi Lee (New Hyde Park, N.Y.), David Suh (Midland Park, N.J.), Glen Farr (Prospect, Conn.) and Robert Babb (River Edge, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods for obtaining cells that express antibodies that bind transmembrane proteins, methods for generating antibodies from such cells, antibodies to transmembrane proteins and fragments ther...