US Patent Issued to Thermo Finnigan, Thermo Fisher Scientific (Bremen) on Sept. 1 for "Methods for performing charge detection mass spectrometry with temporal resolution" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,770, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Thermo Finnigan LLC (San Jose, Calif.) and Thermo Fisher Scientific (Bremen) GmbH (Bremen, Germany).

"Methods for performing charge detection mass spectrometry with temporal resolution" was invented by Dmitry Grinfeld (Bremen, Germany), Michael W. Senko (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Ping F. Yip (Salem, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for charge detection mass spectrometry includes acquiring a time-varying signal representative of a current induced on a detector by oscillatory motion of an ion within a trapping region; processing the time-varying signal to derive a frequency of the osci...