US Patent Issued to Scancell on June 2 for "Binding members" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,956, issued on June 2, was assigned to Scancell Ltd. (Oxford, Great Britain).

"Binding members" was invented by Linda Gillian Durrant (Oxford, Great Britain), Mireille Vankemmelbeke (Oxford, Great Britain) and Tina Rose Parsons (Oxford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to specific binding members, such as antibodies and fragments thereof, that are capable of specifically binding a Lewis Y (Ley) carbohydrate. It also relates to the use of such binding members in medicine and to nucleic acids encoding such binding members."

The patent was filed on July 31, 2020, under Application No. 17/631,002...