US Patent Issued to The General Hospital, Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Oct. 7 for "Therapeutic neutralization antibodies for the treatment of peanut allergy" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,127, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to The General Hospital Corp. (Boston) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Therapeutic neutralization antibodies for the treatment of peanut allergy" was invented by Sarita U. Patil (Newton, Mass.), Wayne G. Shreffler (Beverly, Mass.) and John Christopher Love (Somerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides anti-Ara h 2 antibodies (e.g., an anti-Ara h 2 neutralizing antibody) and methods of using the same, e.g., for treating and/or preventing peanut allergy or sensitivity. Also provided herein are anti-Ara h 2 antibodies and methods of using the sa...