ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,308, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to DH TECHNOLOGIES DEVELOPMENT PTE. LTD. (Singapore).

"Method to identify the glycosidic linkage of sialic acid in glycopeptides" was invented by Suya Liu (Woodbridge, Canada) and Takashi Baba (Richmond Hill, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A separation time of an isomer of one or more isomers of a sialylated glycopeptide of a sample is calculated from a peak of a precursor XIC. Product ion intensities of the first group are summed at the separation time producing a first sum and product ion intensities of the second group are summed at the separation time producing a second sum using XICs o...