US Patent Issued to Regents of the University of Minnesota on April 8 for "Anti-canine CD16 polypeptides, anti-canine CD64 polypeptides, compositions including same, and methods of using" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,887, issued on April 8, was assigned to Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis).

"Anti-canine CD16 polypeptides, anti-canine CD64 polypeptides, compositions including same, and methods of using" was invented by Bruce K. Walcheck (Lino Lakes, Minn.), Jianming Wu (Plymouth, Minn.) and Daniel A. Vallera (Richfield, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An anti-canine CD16 polypeptide generally includes a CDR region of SEQ ID NO:5, a CDR region of SEQ ID NO:9, or a functional variant of either CDR region. An anti-canine CD64 polypeptide generally includes a CDR region of SEQ ID NO:13, a CDR region of SEQ ID NO:17, or a functi...