US Patent Issued to BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM on May 13 for "Aspergillus antigen chimeric receptors and use thereof" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,259, issued on May 13, was assigned to BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM (Austin, Texas).

"Aspergillus antigen chimeric receptors and use thereof" was invented by Pappanaicken Kumar (Houston), Thiago Aparecido Da Silva (Houston) and Paul J. Hauser (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein is an antibody as well as chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) to the Aspergillus antigen p60-binding domain. Further provided herein are immune cells expressing the CARs as well as methods of their use in the treatment of fungal infections and cancer."

The patent was filed on Feb. 7, 2020, under Application No. 17/429,106....