US Patent Issued to NB HEALTH LABORATORY, THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO on June 2 for "Antibody, nucleic acid, cell, and pharmaceutical" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,946, issued on June 2, was assigned to NB HEALTH LABORATORY Co. LTD. (Hokkaido, Japan) and THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO (Tokyo).

"Antibody, nucleic acid, cell, and pharmaceutical" was invented by Megumi Hikichi (Hokkaido, Japan), Masami Ashida (Hokkaido, Japan), Miki Nakagawa (Hokkaido, Japan), Masahiko Shinagawa (Hokkaido, Japan), Ryoma Tanaka (Hokkaido, Japan), Kiyoshi Takayama (Hokkaido, Japan) and Junken Aoki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide an antibody that specifically binds to an extracellular domain of human LPA1, wherein the antibody does not specifically bind to an extracellular domain of human LPA2 and does not s...