ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,915, issued on March 24, was assigned to Medpacto Inc. (Seoul, South Korea), Yonsei University Medical College, Gangnam Severance Hospital, Dept of Surgery (Seoul, South Korea) and Sungkyunkwan University, Dept of Biological Sciences (Suwon, South Korea).

"Methods for diagnosing cancer using anti-BAG2 antibody" was invented by Seong Jin Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Kyung-Min Yang (Incheon, South Korea), Joon Jeong (Seoul, South Korea), Sung Gwe Ahn (Seoul, South Korea), Seok Hee Park (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Dong Woo Kang (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application discloses a composition for use in...