ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,517, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to BIOSION INC. (Nanjing, China).
"Antibodies binding CD40 and uses thereof" was invented by Mark Zhiqing Ma (Nanjing, China), Jinyu Liu (Nanjing, China), Zhengping Zhang (Lianyungang, China) and Hongjiang Xu (Jiangsu, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an isolated monoclonal antibody or an antigen-binding portion thereof that specifically binds human CD40. A nucleic acid molecule encoding the antibody or antigen-binding portion thereof, an expression vector, a host cell and a method for expressing the antibody or the antigen-binding portion thereof are also provided. An immunoconjug...