US Patent Issued to The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology on Feb. 24 for "Multivalent DNA antibody constructs and use thereof" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,547, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (Philadelphia).

"Multivalent DNA antibody constructs and use thereof" was invented by David Weiner (Merion, Pa.) and Ami Patel (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are compositions for generating a synthetic antibody or synthetic multivalent antibody in a subject. Also disclosed are methods for generating a synthetic antibody or synthetic multivalent antibody in a subject by administering a composition including a recombinant nucleic acid sequence that encodes an antibody, a synthetic antibody, or a synthetic multivalent antib...