US Patent Issued to Quest Diagnostics Investments on May 5 for "Methods for detecting estrone by mass spectrometry" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,857, issued on May 5, was assigned to Quest Diagnostics Investments Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Methods for detecting estrone by mass spectrometry" was invented by Mildred M. Goldman (Laguna Niguel, Calif.) and Richard E. Reitz (San Clemente, Calif.).

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

The patent was filed on March 21, 2022, under Application No. 17/700,258.

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