ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,639, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Synthekine Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Heterodimeric FC cytokines and uses thereof" was invented by Patrick Lupardus (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Deepti Rokkam (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides IL12 and IL23 muteins as partial agonists comprising modified human p40 molecules that associate with human p35 (hP35) and human P19 (hP19) to form modified hIL-12 and IL23 partial agonists wherein the individual components of IL12 and IL23 muteins are linked to engineered Fc domains."

The patent was filed on Nov. 21, 2023, under Application No. 18/516,047. ...