ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,768,842, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to THE BINDING SITE GROUP Ltd. (Birmingham, Great Britain).
"Mass spectrometry controls" was invented by Stephen Harding (Birmingham, Great Britain) and Gregg Wallis (Birmingham, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The Invention provides a method of immunopurifying and characterising an analyte from a sample comprising: (i) providing a predetermined amount of a control substance bound to a substrate via a linkage cleavable by acidic pH and/or reducing agents and optionally additional analyte specific antibodies or fragments thereof bound to a substrate, wherein the control substance is sp...