ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,769, issued on March 24, was assigned to Thermo Finnigan LLC (San Jose, Calif.) and Dionex Corp. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Parallel processing and horizontal scaling for peak detection" was invented by Sumanth Upadhya P (San Jose, Calif.) and Hung Q Vu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are scientific instrument support systems, as well as related methods, computing devices, and computer-readable media. For example, in some embodiments, a scientific instrument support apparatus may include: first logic to receive, from a mass spectrometer, injections data for each of a plurality of injections associated wi...