ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,768,824, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to GUANGZHOU QUALITY SUPERVISION AND TESTING INSTITUTE (Guangdong, China).

"Method for detecting urea-formaldehyde resin in melamine-formaldehyde materials" was invented by Yiguang Chen (Guangdong, China), Wenshu Zhang (Guangdong, China), Peilin Zhang (Guangdong, China), Guoshan He (Guangdong, China), Xiaogang Huang (Guangdong, China), Zerong Li (Guangdong, China) and Xiaoting Xiong (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting urea-formaldehyde resin in melamine-formaldehyde materials is provided. The method includes the following steps: washing samples to be tested with...