US Patent Issued to OSAKA UNIVERSITY on April 21 for "Mass spectrometry device, and mass spectrometry method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,600, issued on April 21, was assigned to OSAKA UNIVERSITY (Osaka, Japan).

"Mass spectrometry device, and mass spectrometry method" was invented by Michisato Toyoda (Osaka, Japan), Toshinobu Hondo (Osaka, Japan) and Hiroshi Nakayama (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a technique to carry out mass spectrometry of a wide variety of subject compounds to be analyzed, each of which is extracted in a supercritical fluid. A mass spectrometer (1) includes: a supercritical fluid introduction section (3) for introducing and releasing, to vacuum, a supercritical fluid in which a subject compound for mass spectrometry is co...