ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,755, issued on July 22, was assigned to Transimmune AG (Dusseldorf, Germany) and Yale University (New Haven, Conn.).

"Method for obtaining globally activated monocytes" was invented by Gunter Bauer (Schmalfeld, Germany), Justin Duckworth (Surrey, Great Britain), Robert Tigelaar (New Haven, Conn.), Richard Edelson (Westport, Conn.), Michael Girardi (Madison, Conn.), Karsten Henco (Dusseldorf, Germany) and Adrian Hayday (Kent, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to methods for producing immuno-stimulatory autologous dendritic cells. The present invention further relates to the use of such cells fo...