ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,316, issued on May 13, was assigned to Cyrano Therapeutics Inc. (Delray Beach, Fla.).

"Methods and compositions for diagnosing and treating loss and/or distortion of taste or smell" was invented by Robert I. Henkin (Bethesda, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are methods for diagnosing a subject with loss and/or distortion of taste or smell, e.g., hyposmia, dysosmia, anosmia, phantosmia, hypogeusia, dysgeusia, phantogeusia, and/or ageusia. Also disclosed herein are methods and compositions for treating a subject for loss and/or distortion of taste or smell, e.g., hyposmia, dysosmia, anosmia, phantosmia, hypogeusia, ...