ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,874, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to RAMOT AT TEL-AVIV UNIVERSITY LTD. (Tel Aviv, Israel).

"Antibodies to carbohydrate antigens" was invented by Vered Padler-Karavani (Tel Aviv, Israel), Ron Amon (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Ronit Rosenfeld (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses novel monoclonal antibodies and functional fragments thereof that specifically bind to SLeA carbohydrate antigen with high specificity and selectivity. The invention further provides compositions comprising the antibodies or fragments thereof as well as uses of the antibodies, fragments and compositions."

The patent was...