ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,790, issued on April 14, was assigned to Vivasor Inc. (San Diego).
"Variant antibody that binds CD38" was invented by Barbara A. Swanson (San Diego), Heyue Zhou (San Diego) and Jian Cao (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides anti-CD38 IgG class antibody having improved ability to be manufactured at higher yields compared to the parent antibody having the original wild type sequence. The present disclosure provides a mutated antibody light chain that reduces cleavage heterogeneity for improved production of a homogeneous population of antibody light chains."
The patent was filed on Dec. 18, 2020, u...