US Patent Issued to The University of Chicago, Anokion on Sept. 8 for "Compositions and methods for inducing immune tolerance" (Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,155, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to The University of Chicago (Chicago) and Anokion SA (Ecublens, Switzerland).

"Compositions and methods for inducing immune tolerance" was invented by Jeffrey A. Hubbell (Chicago), David Scott Wilson (Baltimore), Kristen Marie Lorentz (Boston) and Stephan Kontos (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Several embodiments provided in the present disclosure relate to compositions that carry an antigen to which tolerance is desired, the antigen being coupled, bound, or otherwise joined to a targeting moiety, the targeting moiety configured to direct the composition to the liver of a subject. In sever...