ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,764, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Micromass UK Ltd. (Wilmslow, Great Britain).
"Mass spectrometry imaging" was invented by Emrys Jones (Manchester, Great Britain), Richard Denny (Newcaste-under-Lyme, Great Britain), Emmy Hoyes (Richmond, Great Britain) and Keith George Richardson (High Peak, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of analysing a sample comprises analysing a sample in a first mode of operation so as to produce a spatially resolved data set representative of the sample, and analysing the data set so as to identify one or more regions of the sample. For each of one or more identified regions of the s...