US Patent Issued to DH Technologies Development on Feb. 24 for "Systems and methods for charge state assignment in mass spectrometry" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,359, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to DH Technologies Development Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Systems and methods for charge state assignment in mass spectrometry" was invented by Nic Bloomfield (Newmarket, Canada), Gordana Ivosev (Etobicoke, Canada) and Pavel Ryumin (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and methods are described for assigning charge state to detected ions from a mass analysis instrument. In one of the methods, the charge state may be assigned, for instance, by evaluation a detector response signal including information related to individual ion responses generated by an ion detector for each ion arrival even...