ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,342, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Vaccinex Inc. (Rochester, N.Y.).

"Anti-CCR8 antibodies and uses thereof" was invented by Pamela M. Holland (Belmont, Mass.), Andrew Lake (Westwood, Mass.), Austin Dulak (Reading, Mass.), Ernest Smith (Rochester, N.Y.), Maria Scrivens (Cambridge, N.Y.), Caroline Harvey (Rochester, N.Y.), Renee Kirk (Rochester, N.Y.), Leslie Balch (Rochester, N.Y.), Sonia Das (Cambridge, Mass.) and Christopher Converse Wells (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to antibodies or antigen-binding portions thereof that specifically bind human CCR8, polynucleotides and ve...