ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,721, issued on July 21, was assigned to INTERVET INC. (Rahway, N.J.).

"Bispecific caninized antibodies and bispecific binding partners for treating atopic dermatitis" was invented by Mohamad Morsey (Omaha, Neb.), Yuanzheng Zhang (Somerset, N.J.) and Anasuya Saha (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides compositions for treating canine atopic dermatitis that comprise a fusion protein that binds canine IL-22, a caninized anti-pruritic antibody, and a caninized anti-inflammatory antibody. The present invention further provides compositions that comprise a bispecific binding partners that comprises t...