US Patent Issued to SCRIPPS KOREA ANTIBODY INSTITUTE on June 17 for "Antibodies against programmed death-liganduses thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,120, issued on June 17, was assigned to SCRIPPS KOREA ANTIBODY INSTITUTE (Gangwon-Do, South Korea).

"Antibodies against programmed death-liganduses thereof" was invented by Dae Hee Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Eung-Suk Lee (Gwangwon-do, South Korea), Min Jung Kim (Gangwon-do, South Korea), Nara Tae (Gangwon-do, South Korea) and Jong Rip Choi (Gangwon-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are an antibody to programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) or an antigen-binding fragment thereof, a nucleic acid encoding the same, a vector including the nucleic acid, a cell transfected with the vector, a method of producing the antibody...