ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,044, issued on July 15, was assigned to Wuhan Zhihua Technology Co. Ltd. (Wuhan, China).

"Method for predicting retention time of liquid chromatography under different chromatographic conditions" was invented by Chao Meng (Wuhan, China), Hongbin Yang (Wuhan, China) and Ning Xia (Wuhan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for predicting a retention time of liquid chromatography under different chromatographic conditions includes: collecting experimental data; extracting structural information of a molecule according to SMLIES information of a compound, and constructing a molecular graph structure based on the structural info...