US Patent Issued to NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY on Sept. 29 for "Method for analyzing glycan" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,105, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Japan).

"Method for analyzing glycan" was invented by Hiroaki Tateno (Tsukuba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for analyzing a cell surface glycan is provided, the method including bringing a glycan-binding substance labeled with a nucleic acid into contact with the cell and detecting the nucleic acid labeled to the glycan-binding substance bound to the cell, in which a kind and a quantity of the nucleic acid correspond to a kind and a quantity of the cell surface glycan."

The patent was filed on March 15, 2021, ...