US Patent Issued to AKESO BIOPHARMA on Aug. 4 for "Anti-TIGIT antibody, and pharmaceutical composition and use thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,327, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to AKESO BIOPHARMA INC. (Zhongshan, China).

"Anti-TIGIT antibody, and pharmaceutical composition and use thereof" was invented by Baiyong Li (Zhongshan, China), Yu Xia (Zhongshan, China), Zhongmin Wang (Zhongshan, China) and Peng Zhang (Zhongshan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ant-TIGIT antibody, and a pharmaceutical composition and the use thereof. The present invention relates to an anti-TIGIT antibody or an antigen-binding fragment thereof, wherein a heavy chain variable region of the antibody comprises HCDR1-HCDR3 having amino acid sequences as shown in SEQ ID NOs: 3-5, respectively; a...