ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,189, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to HCW Biologics Inc. (Miramar, Fla.).

"Methods of activating regulatory T cells" was invented by Hing C. Wong (Miramar, Fla.), Niraj Shrestha (Miramar, Fla.), Varghese George (Miramar, Fla.) and Michael Dee (Miramar, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are methods of stimulating or increasing the proliferation of a Treg cell, compositions including a population of Treg cells generated by these methods, and methods of treating a subject using these compositions."

The patent was filed on Feb. 11, 2021, under Application No. 17/173,806.

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