US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California, City of Hope on May 12 for "Chimeric antigen receptors against human cytomegalovirus" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,083, issued on May 12, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.) and City of Hope (Duarte, Calif.).

"Chimeric antigen receptors against human cytomegalovirus" was invented by Otto O. Yang (Los Angeles), Ayub Ali (Porter Ranch, Calif.), Don J. Diamond (Glendora, Calif.), Flavia Chiuppesi (Monrovia, Calif.) and Felix Wussow (Monrovia, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are CMV-specific CARs. In some embodiments. the present invention is directed to a method of treating, reducing, or inhibiting an infection by a cytomegalovirus in a subject, which comprises administering to the subj...