US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California, Pfizer on July 29 for "Method of treating cancer using anti-AV8 antibodies" (California, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,499, issued on July 29, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.) and Pfizer Inc. (New York).

"Method of treating cancer using anti-AV8 antibodies" was invented by Kyle Steven Niessen (Edina, Minn.), Dharmaraj Samuel (Dublin, Calif.), Charles Ray Holst (San Jose, Calif.), Matthew Ross Drever (Concord, Calif.), Dean Sheppard (Oakland, Calif.), Rosemary J. Akurst (Tiburon, Calif.), Amha Atakilit (Oakland, Calif.), Dominique Meyer (El Cerrito, Calif.), Isaac J. Rondon (San Francisco) and Joseph Dal Porto (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides antibodies, and antigen-b...