US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, The United States Government as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs on July 8 for "Therapeutic antibodies against osteopontin" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,625, issued on July 8, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.) and The United States Government as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington).

"Therapeutic antibodies against osteopontin" was invented by Lawrence L. K. Leung (Hillsborough, Calif.), Michael J. Morser (San Francisco) and Timothy Myles (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Therapeutic antibodies specific for osteopontin and methods of using them for treating osteopontin-associated disorders are provided. In particular, antibodies, or antigen-binding fragments thereof, that inhibit t...