US Patent Issued to Quest Diagnostics Investments on March 24 for "Methods for detecting estradiol by mass spectrometry" (California, Nevada Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,928, issued on March 24, was assigned to Quest Diagnostics Investments Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Methods for detecting estradiol by mass spectrometry" was invented by Mildred M. Goldman (Laguna Niguel, Calif.), Nigel J. Clarke (San Clemente, Calif.) and Richard E. Reitz (Las Vegas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are methods for determining the amount of estradiol in a sample using mass spectrometry. The methods generally involve ionizing estradiol in a sample and detecting and quantifying the amount of the ion to determine the amount of estradiol in the sample."

The patent was filed on May 3, 2022, under Application No. 17/...