US Patent Issued to Merck Sharp & Dohme on March 17 for "Anti-human PD-1 antibody crystals and methods of use thereof" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,159, issued on March 17, was assigned to Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC (Rahway, N.J.).

"Anti-human PD-1 antibody crystals and methods of use thereof" was invented by Paul Reichert (Montville, N.J.), Winifred W. Prosise (Ramsey, N.J.), Xiaoyu Yang (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Corey Strickland (Martinsville, N.J.), Chakravarthy Nachu Narasimhan (Scotch Plains, N.J.), Thierry O. Fischmann (Scotch Plains, N.J.), Erika R. Walsh (Scotch Plains, N.J.) and Yongchao Su (Hillsborough, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides methods for producing crystalline an anti-PD-1 monoclonal antibody (mAb), wherein the mAb is pembrolizumab or a p...