ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,239, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to MERCK PATENT GMBH (Darmstadt, Germany).

"Anti-CEACAM5 antibodies and conjugates and uses thereof" was invented by Jan Anderl (Darmstadt, Germany), Sabine Raab-Westphal (Darmstadt, Germany), Stefan Hecht (Darmstadt, Germany), Carl Deutsch (Darmstadt, Germany), Min Shan (Darmstadt, Germany), Doreen Konning (Darmstadt, Germany), Willem N. Sloot (Darmstadt, Germany), Felix Hart (Darmstadt, Germany), Christian Schroter (Darmstadt, Germany), Lars Toleikis (Darmstadt, Germany) and Nir Berger (Yavne, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Antibodies which bind human CEACAM5 protein, as well as isolated ...