ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,698, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to King's College London (London) and GammaDelta Therapeutics Ltd. (London).

"Expansion of GammaDelta T cells, compositions, and methods of use thereof" was invented by Richard Beatson (London), Adrian Hayday (Kent, Great Britain), Oliver Nussbaumer (London), Richard Woolf (London), Maria Luisa Iannitto (London) and Natalie Mount (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides methods of expanding GammaDelta T cells from a non-haematopoietic tissue source. Further provided are compositions of expanded GammaDelta T cells and methods of using the expanded GammaDelta T cells (e.g....