US Patent Issued to CHUGAI SEIYAKU on Feb. 24 for "Antibodies and compositions for use in detecting or capturing a polypeptide in a sample, and methods for detecting or capturing a polypeptide in a sample" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,571, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to CHUGAI SEIYAKU K.K. (Tokyo).

"Antibodies and compositions for use in detecting or capturing a polypeptide in a sample, and methods for detecting or capturing a polypeptide in a sample" was invented by Eriko Matsuda (Kanagawa, Japan), Mitsuko Shibuya (Shizuoka, Japan) and Masanobu Nishidate (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein is an antibody to detect and/or capture a polypeptide comprising a modified IgG heavy chain constant region that is derived from any one of constant regions in human naturally occurring IgGs or that is derived from a chimeric constant region obta...