ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,106, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to SANOFI (Paris).

"Protease-processed molecules" was invented by Thomas Langer (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Ercole Rao (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) and Sandra Weil (Frankfurt am Main, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to protein molecules comprising at least one protease-cleavable linker. It also relates to protein molecules obtainable by protease-cleavage of such protein molecules and their use in therapy."

The patent was filed on March 5, 2021, under Application No. 17/908,216.

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