ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,779,036, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to BICARA THERAPEUTICS INC. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Combination therapy for the treatment of cancer" was invented by Shivakumar Bhadravathi Marigowda (Shivamoga, India), Madhukara A R (Yelahanka New-Town, India), Prashant Kumar Pandey (Uttar Pradesh, India), Srinivas Reddy Boreddy (Bangalore, India) and Pradip Nair (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are methods of treating cancer by administering to a subject having cancer an antibody, or functional fragment or functional variant thereof, that specifically binds programmed cell death protein 1 (PD1); and a fusion protein t...