US Patent Issued to The University of Kitakyushu, Daiichi Sankyo on July 21 for "Immune inducer containing polynucleotide-peptide conjugate and pharmaceutical composition containing same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,780, issued on July 21, was assigned to The University of Kitakyushu (Kitakyushu, Japan) and Daiichi Sankyo Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Immune inducer containing polynucleotide-peptide conjugate and pharmaceutical composition containing same" was invented by Shinichi Mochizuki (Fukuoka, Japan), Makoto Koizumi (Tokyo) and Koji Morita (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides an immunity-inducing agent comprising a polynucleotide-peptide conjugate or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof as an active component, wherein the polynucleotide-peptide conjugate consists of: a single-chain polynucleotide or polynucleoti...