US Patent Issued to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, University of Florida Research Foundation on April 22 for "Humanized anti-GDNF family alpha-receptor 4 (GRF-alpha-4) antibodies and chimeric antigen receptors (CARs)" (Pennsylvania, Florida, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,167, issued on April 22, was assigned to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) and University of Florida Research Foundation Inc. (Gainesville, Fla.).

"Humanized anti-GDNF family alpha-receptor 4 (GRF-alpha-4) antibodies and chimeric antigen receptors (CARs)" was invented by Donald L. Siegel (Lansdale, Pa.), Vijay Bhoj (Philadelphia), Christoph Rader (Jupiter, Fla.) and Rebecca Goydel (La Jolla, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to compositions and methods for treating diseases, disorders or conditions associated with the expression of the glycosyl-phosphatidylinositol (GPI)-li...