ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,931, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Method for transfection into cardiomyocytes using cationic lipid" was invented by Yoshinori Yoshida (Kyoto, Japan), Kenji Miki (Kyoto, Japan) and Satoru Matsumoto (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides means which is excellent in efficiency with which a nucleic acid is introduced to cardiac muscle cells, especially a transfection method. A method for transfection of a nucleic acid into a cardiac muscle cell of the present invention comprises a step of contacting a composition comprising: a compound represent...