US Patent Issued to Shanghai AbelZeta on July 7 for "Methods for preparing tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,136, issued on July 7, was assigned to Shanghai AbelZeta Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Methods for preparing tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes" was invented by Jia Li (Shanghai), Jiyan Hou (Shanghai), Zizhen Gong (Shanghai), Yijie Qu (Shanghai), Shichao Qin (Shanghai), Shenchen Wang (Shanghai), Wangqin Shu (Shanghai), Junfeng Wu (Shanghai), Fei Wang (Shanghai) and Li Zhang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are methods for expanding tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs), which include co-culturing an initial cell population containing TILs with first feeder cells to obtain a first expanded cell population; and then co-culturing the fi...