US Patent Issued to CYTOKINETICS on July 29 for "Methods for treating hypertrophic cardiomyopathy" (California, Illinois, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,179, issued on July 29, was assigned to CYTOKINETICS INC. (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Methods for treating hypertrophic cardiomyopathy" was invented by Fady Malik (Burlingame, Calif.), Stuart Kupfer (Highland Park, Ill.), Stephen B. Heitner (Portland, Ore.), Laura Ann Robertson (San Francisco), Lixin Meng (Cupertino, Calif.), Anna Osmukhina (Portland, Ore.) and Qi Wohltman (Belmont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for treating obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy are described herein. The treatment methods include the administration of a cardiac myosin inhibitor (CK-3773274, also referred to as CK-274 or aficamte...