US Patent Issued to Naval Medical University on March 24 for "Anti-tetrodotoxin antibody C31K8, and preparation method and use thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,943, issued on March 24, was assigned to Naval Medical University (Shanghai).

"Anti-tetrodotoxin antibody C31K8, and preparation method and use thereof" was invented by Shi Hu (Shanghai), Changhai Lei (Shanghai) and Wenyan Fu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to the technical field of biomedicine, and provides an anti-tetrodotoxin humanized antibody and use thereof. The humanized antibody has a heavy-chain variable region and a light-chain variable region with amino acid sequences shown in SEQ ID NO: 1 to SEQ ID NO: 2, respectively. Affinity analysis shows that the antibody of the present disclo...