US Patent Issued to SHIMADZU on Sept. 8 for "Ribosomal protein judgement method, biological species identification method, and mass spectrometry apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,113, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Ribosomal protein judgement method, biological species identification method, and mass spectrometry apparatus" was invented by Kanae Teramoto (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a ribosomal protein judgement method, comprising: an attribution step that involves comparing observed m/z values indicated by peaks on a mass spectrum detected by mass spectrometry of a sample containing ribosomal proteins, with first calculated m/z values based on a database, and attributing at least some of the peaks thus detected to ribosomal proteins; and a presu...