US Patent Issued to Universitat zu Koln on June 2 for "Broadly neutralizing antibodies against HIV" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,940, issued on June 2, was assigned to Universitat zu Koln (Cologne, Germany).

"Broadly neutralizing antibodies against HIV" was invented by Florian Klein (Cologne, Germany), Henning Grull (Cologne, Germany) and Philipp Frederik Schommers (Cologne, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to monoclonal human antibodies or binding fragments thereof which are directed against the CD4 binding site of the human immunodeficiency virus HIV-1, a pharmaceutical composition comprising such monoclonal human antibodies or binding fragments thereof, a kit comprising such antibodies or binding fragments thereof, and th...