US Patent Issued to Board of Regents, The University of Texas System on Sept. 15 for "K562 universal antigen presenting cells and uses thereof" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,239, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas).

"K562 universal antigen presenting cells and uses thereof" was invented by Sonny O. T. Ang (Houston), Enli Liu (Houston), Elizabeth Shpall (Houston) and Katy Rezvani (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are universal antigen presenting cells. Also provided herein are methods of expanding immune cells using the UAPCs and methods for the treatment of a disease, such as cancer, using the expanded immune cells."

The patent was filed on Feb. 21, 2019, under Application No. 16/970,930.

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