US Patent Issued to Alector on Sept. 1 for "PILRA antibodies and methods of use thereof" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,077, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Alector LLC (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"PILRA antibodies and methods of use thereof" was invented by Spencer Liang (South San Francisco, Calif.), Samuel Nalle (Pacifica, Calif.) and Ling Leung (Foster City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides antibodies and antigen-binding fragments thereof that specifically bind to human PILRA and compositions comprising such antibodies or antigen-binding fragments thereof. In a particular aspect, the antibodies or antigen-binding fragments thereof that specifically bind to human PILRA block binding of PILRA to ligand/or d...