US Patent Issued to Roche Diagnostics Operations on July 14 for "Target for use in a laser desorption mass spectrometer" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,140, issued on July 14, was assigned to Roche Diagnostics Operations Inc. (Indianapolis).

"Target for use in a laser desorption mass spectrometer" was invented by Martin Rempt (Penzberg, Germany), Manuel Josef Seitz (Berg, Germany) and Christoph Zuth (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A target (110) for use in a laser desorption mass spectrometer is disclosed. The target (110) has at least one surface (112). wherein the surface (112) is covered at least partially with at least one layer (114), wherein the layer (114) is a hydrogen comprising, silicon-incorporated amorphous carbon (a-C:H:Si) layer (116), wherein the a-C:H:Si layer...