ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,501, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Rakuten Medical Inc. (San Diego).
"Methods for photoimmunotherapy and related biomarkers" was invented by Miguel Garcia-Guzman (San Diego), Roger Heim (Del Mar, Calif.), Eileen Sun Chin (San Diego), Jerry Fong (San Diego), Deepak Yadav (San Diego), Nikolai Suslov (San Diego), C. Daniel De Magalhaes Filho (La Jolla, Calif.) and Chung-Wein Lee (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are methods involving the use of biomarkers, in relation to photoimmunotherapy, such as photoimmunotherapy induced by activation of a phthalocyanine dye conjugated to a targeting molecule that binds a prote...