US Patent Issued to The University of Kitakyushu, Daiichi Sankyo on March 31 for "Immunity-inducing agent comprising antigen peptide-adjuvant nucleotide conjugate and pharmaceutical composition comprising same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,148, issued on March 31, was assigned to The University of Kitakyushu (Kitakyushu, Japan) and Daiichi Sankyo Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Immunity-inducing agent comprising antigen peptide-adjuvant nucleotide conjugate and pharmaceutical composition comprising 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, as an active component, a polynucleotide/peptide conjugate in which a single-chain polynucleotide or polynucleotide derivative comprising a CpG motif, and an antigenic peptide are bou...