ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,598, issued on May 19, was assigned to Amgen Inc. (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).

"IL-10 muteins and fusion proteins thereof" was invented by Hailing Hsu (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), Ian Foltz (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), Marissa Mock (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), Victor Mitch Luna (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), Ming Zhang (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), Sharon Lynn Wannberg (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), Gamze Ozlem Camdere Tapia (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) and Timothy Patrick Riley (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates, in general, to muteins of IL-10 that are stable as monomers, antigen binding proteins that bind to TREM-1, and...