US Patent Issued to THE UNIVERSITY OF OSAKA on Sept. 15 for "Follicular helper T (TFH) cells specific to SARS-COV-2 virus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,232, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to THE UNIVERSITY OF OSAKA (Osaka, Japan).

"Follicular helper T (TFH) cells specific to SARS-COV-2 virus" was invented by Sho Yamasaki (Osaka, Japan), Xiuyuan Lu (Osaka, Japan), Yuki Hosono (Osaka, Japan), Shigenari Ishizuka (Osaka, Japan), Kazuo Yamashita (Osaka, Japan) and Nicolas Claude Paul Sax (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Follicular helper T cells specific to SARS-CoV-2 virus are provided. The present disclosure is based on the finding of public TfhTCR specific to spike (S) protein common to various patients, and has identified for the first time a public TCR specific to the...