US Patent Issued to BGI SHENZHEN on July 28 for "VHH antibody for PCSK9 and application thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,323, issued on July 28, was assigned to BGI SHENZHEN (Shenzhen, China).

"VHH antibody for PCSK9 and application thereof" was invented by Naibo Yang (Shenzhen, China), Xiaoyan Gao (Shenzhen, China), Xinyang Li (Shenzhen, China), Xinhua Zhang (Shenzhen, China) and Meiniang Wang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an antibody capable of specifically recognizing PCSK9 or an antigen-binding fragment thereof. The antibody comprises heavy chain variable region CDR1, CDR2, and CDR3 sequences shown in SEQ ID NO: 1, SEQ ID NO: 2, and SEQ ID NO: 3 or shown in amino acid sequences having at least 95% identity to SEQ ID N...