ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,373, issued on March 25, was assigned to Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Tarrytown, N.Y.).

"High confidence compound identification by liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry" was invented by Jikang Wu (Chappaqua, N.Y.), Hongxia Wang (Briarcliff Manor, N.Y.), Haibo Qiu (Hartsdale, N.Y.) and Ning Li (New Canaan, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods for improving compound detection and characterization. Methods for characterizing a sample are disclosed. The methods can include providing a sample to a liquid chromatography system capable of sample separation to generate sample components; analyzing sample componen...