US Patent Issued to XBIOTECH on Feb. 3 for "True human antibody specific for interleukin 1 alpha" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,176, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to XBIOTECH INC. (Vancouver, Canada).

"True human antibody specific for interleukin 1 alpha" was invented by John Simard (Austin, Texas), Sushma Shivaswamy (Austin, Texas) and Galina Kuzmicheva (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Fully human monoclonal Abs includes (i) an antigen-binding variable region that exhibits very high binding affinity for IL-1Alpha and (ii) a constant region that is effective at both activating the complement system though C1q binding and binding to several different Fc receptors."

The patent was filed on April 3, 2023, under Application No. 18/295,193.

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