US Patent Issued to The United States of America as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services on Feb. 10 for "Neutralizing antibodies to GP120 and their use" (Maryland, District Of Columbia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,719, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to The United States of America as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Bethesda, Md.).

"Neutralizing antibodies to GP120 and their use" was invented by Mark Connors (Bethesda, Md.), Jinghe Huang (Derwood, Md.), Byong Ha Kang (Rockville, Md.), John Mascola (Rockville, Md.), Elise Ishida (Chevy Chase, Md.), Tongqing Zhou (Boyds, Md.), Peter Kwong (Washington) and Anqi Zheng (Boyds, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Antibodies and antigen binding fragments that specifically bind to gp120 and neutralize HIV-1 are disclosed. Nucleic acids encoding these antibodies, v...