ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,510, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to BIOND BIOLOGICS LTD. (Misgav, Israel).
"Small shedding blocking agents" was invented by Motti Hakim (Kibbutz Gazit, Israel), Anna Fridman-Dror (Kibbutz Dalia, Israel), Dror Alishekevitz (Kiryat Tivon, Israel), Edna Meilin (Kfar Vradim, Israel), Ilana Mandel (Manof, Israel), Tehila Ben-Moshe (Tel Aviv, Israel), Avidor Shulman (Rakefet, Israel) and Yair Sapir (Manof, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Agents that are less than 100 kilodaltons, bind a membranal immune receptor on a surface of a cell and inhibit proteolytic cleavage of the immune receptor are provided. Methods of treating cancer...