US Patent Issued to University of Virginia Patent Foundation, Georgia Tech Research on Sept. 9 for "Compositions and methods for detecting and regulating fibronectin-integrin interaction and signaling" (Virginia, Massachusetts, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,245, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to University of Virginia Patent Foundation and Georgia Tech Research Corp..

"Compositions and methods for detecting and regulating fibronectin-integrin interaction and signaling" was invented by Thomas H. Barker (Charlottesville, Va.), Leandro Moretti (Charlottesville, Va.), Lizhi Cao (Acton, Mass.) and John Nicosia (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are antibodies that include amino acid sequences of SEQ ID NOs: 2, 4, and 6-12, or amino acid sequences that are about 95% identical thereto, and fragments thereof. Also provided are scFv peptides that include a VH segment having a fir...