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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 07, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 22, 2017
Applicant:
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., Rahway, NJ (US);
Inventors:
Marisa Dolled-Filhart, Highland Park, NJ (US);
Kenneth Emancipator, Bernardsville, NJ (US);
Frank Lynch, Newtown, PA (US);
Robert H. Pierce, San Francisco, CA (US);
Dianna Wu, Skillman, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., Rahway, NJ (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 33/574 (2006.01); A61K 39/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 33/57492 (2013.01); G01N 33/5743 (2013.01); G01N 33/57415 (2013.01); G01N 33/57423 (2013.01); G01N 2333/70596 (2013.01); G01N 2800/52 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present disclosure provides processes for describing and quantifying the expression of human programmed death ligand-1 (PD-L1) in tumor tissue sections as detected by immunohistochemical assay using an antibody that specifically binds to PD-L1. The results generated using these processes have a variety of experimental, diagnostic and prognostic applications.