ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,581, issued on May 19, was assigned to JEOL Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Spectrum analysis apparatus and database creation method" was invented by Shogo Koshiya (Tokyo) and Takanori Murano (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plurality of records are registered in a database. Each record includes emission information and a peak energy sequence. A fitting unit fits, for each peak energy sequence, a calculated spectrum which is based on the peak energy sequence with respect to an actual spectrum which is acquired from a sample. An analyzer analyzes the sample based on the emission information correlated to the calculated spectrum satisfying a fitt...