ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,691, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Tenaya Therapeutics Inc. (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Gene therapy vectors for treating heart disease" was invented by Laura Lombardi (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods and compositions useful for the treatment or prevention of heart disease. In particular, the present disclosure provides a vector comprising a modified troponin T promoter operatively linked to a therapeutic gene product for the treatment or prevention of heart disease, e.g., cardiomyopathy. The gene product may be MYBPC3. The disclosure also provides recombinant adeno...