US Patent Issued to Waters Technologies on July 14 for "Analysis of oligosaccharides using a liquid chromatography system and a chromatographic column in which the LC system and column's internal metal surface has been modified with a layer of inert material" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,988, issued on July 14, was assigned to Waters Technologies Corp. (Milford, Mass.).

"Analysis of oligosaccharides using a liquid chromatography system and a chromatographic column in which the LC system and column's internal metal surface has been modified with a layer of inert material" was invented by Jinchuan Yang (Hopkinton, Mass.) and Paul Rainville (Princeton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to methods of separating one or more non-modified oligosaccharide(s) with degree of polymerization 6 or higher from a sample using a hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography (HILIC) column connec...