ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,768,823, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan) and NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION SHIMANE UNIVERSITY (Shimane, Japan).

"Method for analyzing acylcarnitine and acylcarnitine analyzer" was invented by Takanari Hattori (Kyoto, Japan), Jun Watanabe (Kyoto, Japan), Misa Tanaka (Yokohama, Japan), Hironori Kobayashi (Matsue, Japan) and Yoshitomo Notsu (Izumo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One mode of a method for analyzing acylcarnitine according to the present invention is a method for analyzing C5 acylcarnitine using a tandem mass spectrometer, the method including: a measurement step of performing MRM measu...