ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,936, issued on April 21, was assigned to VCreate Inc. (San Carlos, Calif.).

"Compositions and methods for making novel T-cell receptors" was invented by Binbin Chen (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Ethan Fast (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates generally to the field of T-cell receptors or T-cell receptor mimics, and methods for obtaining novel T-cell receptors or novel T-cell receptor mimics. The compositions and methods described identify pairs of T-cell receptors and antigens. The compositions and methods allow high throughput analysis so that many antigens can be paired with a large repertoire of T-...