US Patent Issued to Thermo Finnigan on May 12 for "Idle-triggered diagnostics for scientific instruments" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,118, issued on May 12, was assigned to Thermo Finnigan LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Idle-triggered diagnostics for scientific instruments" was invented by Deven Lee Shinholt (Leander, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems or techniques are provided for facilitating idle-triggered diagnostics for scientific instruments. In various embodiments, a scientific instrument can comprise a mass spectrometer coupled to a chromatograph. In various aspects, the scientific instrument can determine, via a temperature sensor of the chromatograph or via a clock of the mass spectrometer, whether the scientific instrument is in an idle-time period. ...