US Patent Issued to Monash University on July 21 for "Antibodies for binding plasmin" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,727, issued on July 21, was assigned to Monash University (Clayton, Australia).

"Antibodies for binding plasmin" was invented by James Whisstock (Clayton, Australia), Ruby Law (Clayton, Australia), Adam Quek (Clayton, Australia), Paul Conroy (Clayton, Australia) and Guojie Wu (Clayton, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides an antigen binding protein comprising an antigen binding domain that binds to plasmin, wherein the antigen binding protein reduces the activity of plasmin. The invention also provides compositions comprising the antigen binding protein, and uses and method of treatment comprising t...