ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,071, issued on June 30, was assigned to Thermo Fisher Scientific (Bremen) GmbH (Bremen, Germany).
"Processing ion peak areas in mass spectrometry" was invented by Bernd Hagedorn (Bremen, Germany), Daniel Mourad (Bremen, Germany), Toby Shanley (Bremen, Germany), Hamish Stewart (Bremen, Germany) and Ankit Dwivedi (Bremen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of analysing a signal generated by a mass analyser comprises receiving a signal generated by the mass analyser, determining the area of a first ion peak of one or more ion peaks in the signal, and estimating the number of ions that contributed to the first ion peak. The ...