ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,567, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to BicycleRD Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Bicyclic peptide ligands specific for PD-L1" was invented by Liuhong Chen (Cambridge, Great Britain), James Cooke (Cambridge, Great Britain), Kevin McDonnell (Cambridge, Great Britain), Gemma Mudd (Cambridge, Great Britain), Katerine Van Rietschoten (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Punit Upadhyaya (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are bicyclic peptides which are high affinity binders of programmed cell death 1 ligand 1 (PD-L1). Also provided are drug conjugates comprising the peptides described herein conjugated t...