ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,079, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to PD-I Acquisition Group LLC (New York).

"Anti-PD-1 antibodies" was invented by Najmia Amirina (Cambridge, Mass.), Hareesh Chamarthi (Allston, Mass.), Maria Isabel Chiu (Newton Centre, Mass.), Daniel Doty (Arlington, Mass.), Bin Feng (Newton, Mass.), Aleksander Jonca (Boston), Thomas McQuade (Cambridge, Mass.), Anhco Nguyen (Needham, Mass.), Sheila Ranganath (Arlington, Mass.), Hans Albert Felix Scheuplein (Arlington, Mass.), Vikki A. Spaulding (Acton, Mass.), Lei Wang (Braintree, Mass.), Jennifer Watkins-Yoon (Brighton, Mass.) and Sri Sahitya Vadde (Ashland, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "...