ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,604, issued on May 19, was assigned to Novartis AG (Basel, Switzerland).

"Methods of making chimeric antigen receptor-expressing cells" was invented by Louise Mary Treanor (Cambridge, Mass.), Michael R. Greene (Groton, Mass.), Jennifer Brogdon (Sudbury, Mass.), Boris Engels (Arlington, Mass.), Glenn Dranoff (Sudbury, Mass.), Olja Kodrasi (Quincy, Mass.), Hyungwook Lim (Cambridge, Mass.), Akash Sohoni (Cambridge, Mass.), Elizabeth Dorothy Pratico (East Boston, Mass.), Anniesha Hack (East Hanover, N.J.), Aida Abujoub (Winchester, Mass.), Tony Fleming (Stow, Mass.), Lu Huang (West Roxbury, Mass.), Connie Hong (Somerville, Mass.), John Blankenship (Acton, Mass.), Brian Holmberg (Somerv...