ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,116, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Roche Diagnostics Operations Inc. (Indianapolis).
"Reagent for mass spectrometry" was invented by Robert Hahn (Munich), Dieter Heindl (Munich), Hans-Peter Josel (Weilheim, Germany), Uwe Kobold (Weilheim, Germany), Hannes Kuchelmeister (Munich), Simon Loibl (Wolfratshausen, Germany), Heribert Maerz (Paehl, Germany), Giuseppe Prencipe (Penzberg, Germany) and Martin Rempt (Penzberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to compounds which are suitable to be used in mass spectrometry as well as methods of mass spectrometric determination of analyte molecules using s...