ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,396, issued on March 25, was assigned to Serimmune Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Methods and compositions for assessing antibody specificities" was invented by Patrick Sean Daugherty (Goleta, Calif.), Kathryn Vinaya Louise Kamath (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and Jack Ryan Reifert (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides compositions and methods that can be used to determine a peptide signature for an antibody repertoire in a sample comprising multiple antibodies. The method can be used to characterize a phenotype in a sample, such as providing a diagnosis, prognosis or theranosis of a medical conditi...