ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,957, issued on June 2, was assigned to Sanofi (Paris).

"Antibodies to plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) and uses thereof" was invented by Alla Pritsker (Bridgewater, N.J.), Patrick Grailhe (Paris), Alexey Rak (Paris), Magali Mathieu (Paris), Christopher Ryan Morgan (Bridgewater, N.J.), Nicolas Baurin (Paris), Bruno Poirier (Paris), Cyril Daveu (Paris), Francis Duffieux (Paris), Han Li (Yardley, Pa.), Dorothea Kominos (Millington, N.J.) and Philip Janiak (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides antibodies that specifically bind to Plasminogen Activator inhibitor type-1 (PAI-1), The invention also provides ph...