ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,117, issued on May 12, was assigned to Roche Diagnostics Operations Inc. (Indianapolis).

"Quality control tools for LC-MS" was invented by Daniel Intelmann (Schaftlach, Germany) and Julian Michely (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for identifying and/or verifying at least one analyte peak in a chromatogram of a sample for said analyte from a liquid chromatography mass spectrometer device, said method comprising: a) determining a chromatogram of the sample by acquiring a plurality of data points for quantifier signal intensities and/or qualifier signal intensities, over time; and, in case the sample comprises an internal ...