US Patent Issued to ImmunityBio on Dec. 16 for "Combined invasion and cytotoxicity assay using chemokine secreting target cells" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,363, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to ImmunityBio Inc. (San Diego).

"Combined invasion and cytotoxicity assay using chemokine secreting target cells" was invented by Nathan Thomas Schomer (San Diego), Laurent H. Boissel (San Diego) and Hans G. Klingemann (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are compositions and methods for detecting migration of effector cells towards a target cell, and cytotoxicity of the migrated effector cells against the target cells. The effector cells are modified to express a homing or migratory receptor, and the target cells are modified to express the cognate ligand. The methods can be...