US Patent Issued to University of Connecticut, UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME DU LAC on May 27 for "Identification of immunologically protective neo-epitopes for the treatment of cancers" (Indiana, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,017, issued on May 27, was assigned to University of Connecticut (Farmington, Conn.) and UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME DU LAC (Notre Dame, Ind.).

"Identification of immunologically protective neo-epitopes for the treatment of cancers" was invented by Pramod K. Srivastava (Avon, Conn.) and Brian M. Baker (Granger, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are methods of identifying immunologically protective neo-epitopes from the cancer tissue DNA of cancer patients using biophysical principles as well as bioinformatics techniques. The identification of immunologically protective neo-epitopes provides pharmaceutical compositions...