US Patent Issued to Palleon Pharmaceuticals on Aug. 25 for "Multimeric proteins for detecting a carbohydrate and/or treating a siglec-mediated disorder" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,903, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Palleon Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Waltham, Mass.).

"Multimeric proteins for detecting a carbohydrate and/or treating a siglec-mediated disorder" was invented by Li Peng (Lexington, Mass.), Adam Petrone (Woburn, Mass.), Lihui Xu (Chestnut Hill, Mass.) and Adam Shoemaker (Somerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates generally to polypeptides comprising a lectin domain, multimeric proteins comprising the polypeptides, and use of the polypeptides or multimeric proteins in the detection of a carbohydrate (e.g., a sialic acid containing carbohydrate or Siglec ligand) or the trea...