US Patent Issued to The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Seervices on Aug. 11 for "Methods of preparing anti-human papillomavirus antigen T cells" (Maryland, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,706, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Seervices (Bethesda, Md.).

"Methods of preparing anti-human papillomavirus antigen T cells" was invented by Christian S. Hinrichs (Princeton, N.J.) and Steven A. Rosenberg (Potomac, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods of preparing an isolated population of human papillomavirus (HPV)-specific T cells comprise dividing an HPV-positive tumor sample into multiple fragments; separately culturing the multiple fragments; obtaining T cells from the cultured multiple fragments; testing the ...