ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,074, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to TORAY INDUSTRIES Inc. (Tokyo).

"Medicament for treatment and/or prevention of cancer" was invented by Fumiyoshi Okano (Kamakura, Japan) and Daisuke Akazawa (Kamakura, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the preset invention is to provide a medicament for treatment and/or prevention of cancer. The present invention relates to a medicament for treatment and/or prevention of cancer in a cancer patient with a previous history of another cancer treatment, comprising an antibody or a fragment thereof haying an immunological reactivity with CAPRIN-1 protein, and an angiogenesis inhibitor...