US Patent Issued to Chugai Seiyaku on Oct. 27 for "Methods of treatment comprising administering an antibody that promotes disappearance of antigens having plurality of biological activities" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,327, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Chugai Seiyaku K.K. (Tokyo).

"Methods of treatment comprising administering an antibody that promotes disappearance of antigens having plurality of biological activities" was invented by Tomoyuki Igawa (Shizuoka, Japan), Atsuhiko Maeda (Shizuoka, Japan), Shigero Tamba (Shizuoka, Japan), Takehisa Kitazawa (Shizuoka, Japan), Takeshi Baba (Shizuoka, Japan), Yoshinao Ruike (Shizuoka, Japan) and Junichi Nezu (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present inventors newly discovered that even if an antigen-binding molecule inhibits in vitro some of the physiological activities of an antig...