US Patent Issued to Avotres on March 31 for "Preparation of a therapeutic composition for treating autoimmune diseases" (New Jersey Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,113, issued on March 31, was assigned to Avotres Inc. (Cedar Knolls, N.J.).

"Preparation of a therapeutic composition for treating autoimmune diseases" was invented by Hong Jiang (Fort Lee, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a composition comprising dendritic cells loaded with hHsp60sp, which dendritic cells are from a subject and have been fixed with paraformaldehyde (PFA). The subject may suffer from an autoimmune disease. Also provided are a method for preparing the composition; recombinant human cells comprising a heterologous gene encoding a fusion protein of HLA-E and hHsp60sp or B7sp, and expre...