US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University on Oct. 28 for "Regulatable cell surface receptors and related compositions and methods" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,562, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"Regulatable cell surface receptors and related compositions and methods" was invented by Crystal Mackall (Stanford, Calif.), Louai Labanieh (Palo Alto, Calif.), Robbie Majzner (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Michael Z. Lin (Stanford, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are cell surface receptors that include an extracellular binding domain, a transmembrane domain, an intracellular signaling domain, and a protease cleavage site disposed between the extracellular binding domain and the intracellular sign...