ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,697, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Academia Sinica (Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Method for selecting antibody fragments, recombinant antibodies produced therefrom, and uses thereof" was invented by An-Suei Yang (Seattle), Chung-Ming Yu (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Ing-Chien Chen (Taipei City, Taiwan), Chao-Ping Tung (Taipei City, Taiwan) and Hung-Pin Peng (Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are methods for selecting an antibody fragment specific to an influenza virus. According to certain embodiments of the present disclosure, the influenza virus may be influenza virus type A (IAV) or influenza virus ...