US Patent Issued to CITY OF HOPE on Feb. 24 for "Cell penetrating cyanine-coupled antibodies" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,479, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to CITY OF HOPE (Duarte, Calif.).

"Cell penetrating cyanine-coupled antibodies" was invented by Andreas Herrmann (Del Mar, Calif.), Hua Yu (Glendora, Calif.) and Christoph Lahtz (Duarte, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are compositions relating to cell-penetrating conjugates of formula (I) or (IV). The compositions are capable of penetrating cells and recognizing intracellular targets (e.g., STAT3) and are, inter alia, useful for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes."

The patent was filed on Dec. 9, 2016, under Application No. 16/060,009.

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