US Patent Issued to Agenus on May 19 for "Anti-TIGIT antibodies and methods of use thereof" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,628, issued on May 19, was assigned to Agenus Inc. (Lexington, Mass.).

"Anti-TIGIT antibodies and methods of use thereof" was invented by Olga Ignatovich (Lexington, Mass.), K. Mark Bushell (Lexington, Mass.), Dhan Sidhartha Chand (Woburn, Mass.) and Beth Wensley (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The instant disclosure provides isolated antibodies that specifically bind to TIGIT (e.g., human TIGIT). Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions comprising these antibodies, nucleic acids encoding these antibodies, expression vectors and host cells for making these antibodies, and methods of treating a subject using these...