ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,106, issued on March 24, was assigned to GEMPHARMATECH Co. LTD. (Jiangsu, China).

"IL-15 humanized mouse model and use thereof" was invented by Cunxiang Ju (Nanjing, China), Weiwei Yu (Nanjing, China), Mingkun Zhang (Nanjing, China), Hongyan Sun (Nanjing, China) and Dingyu Wang (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a mouse and a functional activity part thereof, comprising a humanized IL-15 gene; the humanized IL-15 gene comprises a human IL-15 gene segment and a mouse IL-15 gene segment, the human IL-15 gene segment comprises at least a part of exon 4, exon 5, exon 6, exon 7 and exon 8 of the human IL-15 gene,...