US Patent Issued to Institute of Nuclear Energy Research, Atomic Energy Council, Executive Yuan, . R.O.C on July 28 for "Anti-chitinase-3-like protein-1 (YKL-40) neutralizing antibody and uses thereof" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,324, issued on July 28, was assigned to Institute of Nuclear Energy Research, Atomic Energy Council, Executive Yuan, . R.O.C (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

"Anti-chitinase-3-like protein-1 (YKL-40) neutralizing antibody and uses thereof" was invented by Ming-Cheng Chang (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Ping-Fang Chiang (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Yu-Jen Kuo (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein an isolated neutralizing antibody, which is capable of specifically binding to chitinase-3-like protein-1 (YKL-40) and uses thereof. The neutralizing antibody can further conjugate with a metal chelator to form an antibody complex. Further, labelin...