US Patent Issued to Vivasor on May 19 for "Antigen binding proteins that bind BCMA" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,642, issued on May 19, was assigned to Vivasor Inc. (San Diego).

"Antigen binding proteins that bind BCMA" was invented by Heyue Zhou (San Diego) and Xia Cao (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides BCMA binding proteins, particularly anti-BCMA antibodies, or antigen-binding portions thereof, that specifically bind BCMA and uses thereof. In one embodiment, the anti-BCMA antibody comprises an antigen binding portion that binds a human BCMA epitope and blocks binding (e.g, inhibits binding) of human APRIL and/or human BAFF to the human BCMA epitope. Various aspects of the anti-BCMA antibodies relate to a...