US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Oct. 21 for "Antibodies for botulinum neurotoxins" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,463, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Antibodies for botulinum neurotoxins" was invented by James D. Marks (Kensington, Calif.) and Maria Consuelo Garcia Rodriguez (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides antibodies that specifically bind to botulinum neurotoxins (e.g., BoNT/A, BoNT/B, BoNT/C, BoNT/D, BoNT/E, BoNT/F, BoNT/G, etc.) and the epitopes bound by those antibodies. The antibodies and derivatives thereof that specifically bind to the neutralizing epitopes provided herein can be used to neutralize botulinum neurotoxin and are...