US Patent Issued to Children's Medical Center, The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services on Oct. 27 for "Truncated modified recombinant ADAMTS13 and uses thereof" (Massachusetts, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,459, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Children's Medical Center Corp. (Boston) and The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Silver Spring, Md.).

"Truncated modified recombinant ADAMTS13 and uses thereof" was invented by Daniel S. Kohane (Newton, Mass.), Juan C. Ibla (Medfield, Mass.), Upendra Katneni (Clarksburg, Md.) and Chava Kimchi-Sarfaty (North Potomac, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are polypeptides that are truncated modified recombinant forms of ADAMTS13, nucleic acid molecules encoding the polypeptides, drug delivery compositions and pharmac...