ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,876, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to INNATE PHARMA (Marseilles, France).

"CD73 blocking antibodies" was invented by Laurent Gauthier (Marseilles, France), Carine Paturel (Marcy l'Etoile, France) and Ivan Perrot (Cassis, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to antibodies, and fragments thereof, that bind and inhibit CD73. The invention also relates to cells producing such compounds; methods of making such compounds, and antibodies, fragments, variants, and derivatives thereof; pharmaceutical compositions comprising the same; methods of using the compounds to diagnose, treat or prevent diseases, e.g., ...