US Patent Issued to Micromass UK on Oct. 27 for "Method to reduce measurement bias" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,994, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Micromass UK Ltd. (Wilmslow, Great Britain).

"Method to reduce measurement bias" was invented by Richard Barrington Moulds (Stockport, Great Britain) and David Gordon (Middlewich, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of mass analysing a single analytical sample is disclosed comprising: i) transmitting different species of ions through a mass spectrometer; ii) sequentially mass analysing, or otherwise detecting, said different species of ions in a particular sequential order; and then iii) repeating steps i) and ii), wherein the sequential order in which said different species o...