ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,474, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. (Little Falls, N.J.).

"B-cell cultivation method" was invented by Friederike Jung (Penzberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Herein is reported a method for co-cultivating B-cells in the presence of phorbol myristate acetate, IL-1beta, TNFalpha, IL-2, IL-10 and IL-6."

The patent was filed on June 27, 2019, under Application No. 16/455,681.

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