US Patent Issued to Valkyr on Sept. 30 for "System and methods relating to chimeric autoantibody receptors" (North Carolina, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,476, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Valkyr Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"System and methods relating to chimeric autoantibody receptors" was invented by Brenda Y. Miao (Fremont, Calif.) and Jayanth Venkata Nagendra S Batchu (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Chimeric autoantibody receptors (CAARs) can include separate signaling and recognition constructs that are able to bind ligands that target autoantigens made of conventional amino acids, non-conventional amino acids, carbohydrates, or nucleic acids. Additionally, the present disclosure describes cells modified to express such constructs and the use of such construct...