ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,560, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to SANOFI (Paris).
"Anti-CHIKV antibodies and uses thereof" was invented by Kara Carter (Bridgewater, N.J.), Cendrine Lemoine (Paris), Marie Mandron (Paris), Sunghae Park (Bridgewater, N.J.), Huawei Qiu (Bridgewater, N.J.) and Jonathan Rothblatt (Bridgewater, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention concerns antibodies and antigen-binding fragments of antibodies which specifically bind to and neutralize Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) and which are engineered to develop therapeutics in order to treat CHIKV disease or prevent CHIKV infection. The invention also relates to pharmaceutical ...