US Patent Issued to Regeneron Pharmaceuticals on Nov. 18 for "Mouse model of DITRA disease and uses thereof" (New York, New Jersey, Washington, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,579, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Tarrytown, N.Y.).

"Mouse model of DITRA disease and uses thereof" was invented by Andrew J. Murphy (Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y.), Alexander O. Mujica (Elmsford, N.Y.), Ka-Man Venus Lai (Seattle), Sokol Haxhinasto (Brookfield, Conn.) and Zaruhi Hovhannisyan (Hoboken, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to genetically modified rodent animals and rodent models of human diseases. More specifically, this disclosure relates to genetically modified rodents whose genome comprises a humanized Il1rl2 gene (coding for the IL1rl2 subunit of the IL-36R prot...