ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,469, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to DH Technologies Development Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Data independent acquisition of production spectra and reference spectra library matching" was invented by Ronald F. Bonner (Newmarket, Canada), Stephen A. Tate (Barrie, Canada), Rudolf Aebersold (Zurich), Pedro Jose Navarro Alvarez (Zurich), Oliver Rinner (Zurich), Lukas Reiter (Wil, Switzerland) and Ludovic Gillet (Zurich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for analyzing a sample using overlapping precursor isolation windows. A mass analyzer of a tandem mass spectrometer is instructed to select and fragment at ...