US Patent Issued to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania on March 25 for "Compositions and methods for switchable CAR T cells using surface-bound sortase transpeptidase" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,379, issued on March 25, was assigned to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia).

"Compositions and methods for switchable CAR T cells using surface-bound sortase transpeptidase" was invented by Mauro Castellarin (Ardmore, Pa.) and June Carl (Merion Station, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention includes compositions and methods comprising sortase immune receptors and sortase chimeric antigen receptors (CARs)."

The patent was filed on Oct. 12, 2019, under Application No. 17/284,407.

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