US Patent Issued to SHIMADZU on March 17 for "Mass spectrometer and mass spectrometry method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,170, issued on March 17, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Mass spectrometer and mass spectrometry method" was invented by Kazutaka Mitsui (Kyoto, Japan) and Hidenori Takahashi (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a mass spectrometer including: a reaction chamber into which a precursor ion is introduced; a radical generation part configured to generate a known radical; a radical supply part configured to react the precursor ion with the radical to generate fragment ions and an adduction; a measurement control part configured to measure ions including the precursor ion, the fragment ions, and the add...