US Patent Issued to Vanderbilt University on Sept. 16 for "Methods for identification of ligand-blocking antibodies and for determining antibody potency" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,037, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tenn.).

"Methods for identification of ligand-blocking antibodies and for determining antibody potency" was invented by Marion Francis Setliff (Nashville, Tenn.), Ivelin Stefanov Georgiev (Brentwood, Tenn.), Andrea Shiakolas (Nashville, Tenn.), Kelsey Pilewski (Nashville, Tenn.) and Rohit Venkat (Nashville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to high-throughput systems and methods for the detection of ligand-blocking antibodies and for determining antibody potency."

The patent was filed on Jan. 22, 2021, under Application No. ...