ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,713, issued on March 24, was assigned to Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. (Princeton, N.J.) and Halozyme Inc. (San Diego).

"Methods of treating tumors" was invented by Masano Huang (Princeton, N.J.), Thomas Arthur Haby (Lincroft, N.J.), Mehrnaz Khossravi (West Windsor, N.J.), Scott Aaron Hart (Hillsborough, N.J.), Rao Venkatramana Mantri (Pennington, N.J.), Heather Elizabeth Vezina (Upper Holland, Pa.), Amit Roy (Woodbury, Conn.), Bindu Purnima Murthy (Robbinsville, N.J.), Urvi Ashish Aras (Kendall Park, N.J.), Kinjal Sanghavi (Princeton, N.J.), Xiaochen Zhao (Pennington, N.J.) and Akintunde Bello (Princeton Junction, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trade...