ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,530, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Kite Pharma Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Immune cell function" was invented by Peter Emtage (Lafayette, Calif.), Jun Feng (San Diego), Heba Nowyhed (Los Angeles) and Tammy Phung (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The methods and compositions disclosed herein relate to the field of cell therapy, and more specifically, to improving CAR and/or TCR function through improvement of the tumor microenvironment via improvement in cytokine signaling. Methods of treating a cancer in a patient are disclosed comprising administering to the patient immune cells expressing a chimeric antigen receptor ...