ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,645, issued on April 15, was assigned to Biological E Ltd. (India).

"Methods for quantification of carbohydrates" was invented by Rajendar Burki (Telangana, India), Ramesh Venkat Matur (Telangana, India), Narender Dev Mantena (Telangana, India) and Mahima Datla (Telangana, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a colorimetric based method for quantifying carbohydrates in a given aqueous sample. The method provided by the invention uses 2-Phenoxyethanol as a novel reagent for quantifying carbohydrates in a given sample. The present invention is a rapid, sensitive, simple and direct method for carbohydrate q...