US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, President and Fellows of Harvard College on Aug. 11 for "Methods and composition for modulating immune response and immune homeostasis" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,696, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.) and President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Methods and composition for modulating immune response and immune homeostasis" was invented by Carly G.K. Ziegler (Cambridge, Mass.), Siyi Huang (Cambridge, Mass.), Ulrich H. von Andrian (Cambridge, Mass.) and Alexander K. Shalek (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses novel methods, uses thereof, and compositions for modulating immune responses and homeostasis in a lymph node (LN). Moreover, structural and molecular characteristics ...