ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,583, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Jilin University (Changchun, China).

"Use of guar gum, fluorescence-enhanced gold nanocluster, method for detecting alpha-glucosidase, and method for screening alpha-glucosidase inhibitor" was invented by Zhenzhen Huang (Changchun, China), Xiaoyu Geng (Changchun, China), Ruisong Xue (Changchun, China), Shiyong Teng (Changchun, China), Jinshuo Li (Changchun, China), Yanmei Liu (Changchun, China) and Wensheng Yang (Changchun, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides use of guar gum, a fluorescence-enhanced gold nanocluster, a method for detecting Alpha-glucosidase (Alp...