US Patent Issued to Highland Innovations on Oct. 21 for "Shot-to-shot sampling using a matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometer" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,341, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Highland Innovations Inc. (Old Tappan, N.J.).

"Shot-to-shot sampling using a matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometer" was invented by Eung Joon Jo (Old Tappan, N.J.) and Yohahn Jo (Old Tappan, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments relate to an apparatus, method, or computer program. A laser may be configured to irradiate a plurality of laser pulses on a target area to ionize a sample placed in the target area into at least one ionized particle. Electrodes at a first end of a flight tube may be configured to accelerate ionized particles into the fli...