ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,619, issued on May 19, was assigned to UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK (Toronto).

"Immunoglobulin light chain antibodies and uses thereof" was invented by Avijit Chakrabartty (Vaughan, Canada), Yulong Sun (Maple, Canada), Natalie J. Galant (Kleinburg, Canada), Kevin C. Hadley (Toronto) and Meghan A. Wing (Guelph, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to antibodies or antigen-binding portions thereof that specifically bind free immunoglobulin light chains (FLC), polynucleotides and vectors encoding the same, and pharmaceutical compositions comprising the same. Some aspects of the disclosure are directed to ...