ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,042, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Thermo Fisher Scientific (Bremen) GmbH (Bremen, Germany).
"Mass spectrometry system for determining a measure of a rate of decay" was invented by Jan-Peter Hauschild (Bremen, Germany), Tobias Woerner (Bremen, Germany), Kyle Fort (Bremen, Germany), Alexander Makarov (Bremen, Germany) and Konstantin Aizikov (Bremen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mass spectrometry systems for performing mass analysis on ion samples include a vacuum region comprising a mass analyser configured to provide a detection signal for the ion sample. A turbomolecular pump is configured to maintain the vacuum regio...