ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,483, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Industrial Technology Research Institute (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Anti-TIGIT antibodies and methods of use" was invented by Min-Yuan Chou (Taipei City, Taiwan), Li-Tsen Lin (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Chung-Yuan Sun (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Ya-Ping Lai (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Chin-Pen Lai (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Ssu-Yuan Wu (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and Mei-Wei Lin (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Antibodies and antigen-binding fragments that bind to TIGIT are disclosed. The disclosure further relates to methods and compositions for use in treating an immune-related disease (e...