US Patent Issued to University of Central Florida Research Foundation on Oct. 7 for "Compositions and methods for stimulating natural killer cells" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,121, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to University of Central Florida Research Foundation Inc. (Orlando, Fla.).

"Compositions and methods for stimulating natural killer cells" was invented by Alicja Copik (Orlando, Fla.), Griffith Parks (Orlando, Fla.) and Jeremiah Oyer (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compositions and methods for stimulating NK cell expansion and cytotoxicity are described. Therapeutic compositions and methods using expanded and stimulated NK cells are described."

The patent was filed on Jan. 24, 2020, under Application No. 16/752,040.

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