ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,317, issued on March 17, was assigned to CITY OF HOPE (Duarte, Calif.).

"Anti-CD5 antibody compositions and uses thereof" was invented by Hua Yu (Duarte, Calif.) and Chunyan Zhang (Duarte, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are, inter alia, antibodies (e.g., humanized antibodies, monoclonal antibodies) and antibody compositions (e.g., chimeric antigen receptors, bispecific antibodies) that are capable of binding CD5. The antibodies and antibody compositions provided herein include novel light and heavy chain domain CDRs and framework regions, and bind CD5 with high efficiency and specificity, thereby effectively t...