ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,813, issued on May 5, was assigned to ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY (Hangzhou, China).
"Method for detecting glycosidic bonds of plant polysaccharides" was invented by Shiguo Chen (Hangzhou, China), Kai Zhu (Hangzhou, China), Xingqian Ye (Hangzhou, China), Zhiqiang Hou (Hangzhou, China) and Jinghua Wu (Hangzhou, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for detecting glycosidic bonds of plant polysaccharides. The method includes taking 100 MuL of NaOH-DMSO suspension (1 mg/mL) of plant polysaccharides containing 20 or more kinds of substances such as galactan, araban, polygalacturonic acid, rhamnogalacturonan...