US Patent Issued to SHIMADZU on July 22 for "Glycan structure analyzer and glycan structure analysis program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,950, issued on July 22, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Glycan structure analyzer and glycan structure analysis program" was invented by Masaki Murase (Kyoto, Japan) and Takashi Nishikaze (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a glycan structure analyzer according to one mode, a plurality of tabs for setting analysis conditions includes a dedicated tab for the setting of the conditions concerning a chemical modification specific to the linkage type of sialic acids, allowing a user to select major chemical modification agents. When one of those agents is selected, the mass change for each linkage type is autom...