US Patent Issued to FIVE PRIME THERAPEUTICS on July 14 for "B7-H4 antibodies and methods of use thereof" (California, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,892, issued on July 14, was assigned to FIVE PRIME THERAPEUTICS INC. (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).

"B7-H4 antibodies and methods of use thereof" was invented by Charles Kaplan (San Francisco), Derrick Houser (San Francisco), Luis Borges (San Mateo, Calif.), Gloria Brattich (San Francisco), David Bellovin (San Jose, Calif.), Felicia Kemp (San Jose, Calif.), Majid Ghoddusi (Walnut Creek, Calif.), Nels P. Nielson (Lebanon, N.H.), Kathy Miller (San Francisco) and Maike Schmidt (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides antibodies and antigen-binding fragments thereof that specifically bind to human B7-H4 (an...