ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,185, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY R&DB FOUNDATION (Seoul, South Korea).

"Chimeric antigen receptor to which anti-cotinine antibody is linked, and use thereof" was invented by Kyungho Choi (Goyang-si, South Korea), Hyung-Bae Park (Seoul, South Korea), Ji Eun Lee (Goyang-si, South Korea), Yumi Oh (Goyang-si, South Korea), Ki-Hyun Kim (Goyang-si, South Korea), Soohyun Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Hyori Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Junho Chung (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A chimeric antibody receptors with anti-cotinine antibodies linked, and uses thereof are disclosed. A T cell pres...