ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,850, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Method for mass spectrometry and mass spectrometer" was invented by Kazuma Maeda (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a mass spectrometer provided with a measurement section (1) including a collision cell (17) and a mass separator (20-23) for a mass spectrometric analysis of product ions, a CES-method-condition determiner (321) determines collision-energy (CE) values for a collision energy spread (CES) method according to given conditions including the range and number of CE values, in such a manner that n+1 CE values to be used when the number is n+1 ...