ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,636, issued on April 21, was assigned to Northeastern University (Boston).
"Carbene mass tagging" was invented by Pushkar Kulkarni (Allston, Mass.), Roger W. Giese (Hanover, Mass.) and Poguang Wang (Westborough, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a diazirine precursor mass tag compound represented by structural formula (I)Also disclosed is a method for detecting analytes in a sample, comprising derivatizing the analytes with the compound of formula (I), and detecting the resulting derivatized analytes by a mass or ion mobility spectrometry."
The patent was filed on May 22, 2020, under Application No. 17/...