US Patent Issued to THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO, COMPLECURE on Sept. 1 for "Conjugate of phthalocy anine dye and antibody or peptide" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,903, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO (Tokyo) and COMPLECURE INC. (Tokyo).

"Conjugate of phthalocy anine dye and antibody or peptide" was invented by Motomu Kanai (Tokyo), Kenzo Yamatsugu (Tokyo), Toshifumi Tatsumi (Tokyo), Kazuki Takahashi (Tokyo), Tatsuhiko Kodama (Tokyo), Akira Sugiyama (Tokyo), Masanobu Tsukagoshi (Tokyo) and Yuzo Toda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A phthalocyanine dye for use in photoimmunotherapy, and a method for producing it, and a conjugate of the phthalocyanine dye and an antibody or a peptide are provided, including-a compound represented by formula (1) or a salt thereof: ...