ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,751, issued on July 22, was assigned to Waters Technologies Corp. (Milford, Mass.).

"Materials for hydrophilic interaction chromatography and processes for preparation and use thereof for analysis of glycoproteins and glycopeptides" was invented by Matthew A. Lauber (North Smithfield, R.I.), Stephan M. Koza (Lancaster, Mass.), Pamela C. Iraneta (Brighton, Mass.) and Kevin D. Wyndham (Upton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to poly-amide bonded hydrophilic interaction chromatography (HILIC) stationary phases and novel HILIC methods for use in the characterization of large biological molecules modified with po...