US Patent Issued to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania on Oct. 27 for "Anti-Alpha-synuclein monoclonal antibodies, and methods using same" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,321, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia).

"Anti-Alpha-synuclein monoclonal antibodies, and methods using same" was invented by Kelvin C. Luk (Philadelphia), Virginia M.Y. Lee (Philadelphia), John Q. Trojanowski (Philadelphia), Kurt R. Brunden (Media, Pa.) and Dustin Covell (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides in one aspect monoclonal antibodies that bind Alpha-Synuclein. In certain aspects, the antibodies preferentially bind to Alpha-Synuclein fibrils over Alpha-Synuclein monomer. In other aspects, the disclosure provides a method of ...