ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,068, issued on June 30, was assigned to Thermo Fisher Scientific (Bremen) GmbH (Bremen, Germany).
"Timing control for analytical instrument" was invented by Hamish Stewart (Bremen, Germany), Bernd Hagedorn (Bremen, Germany) and Johannes Petzoltd (Bremen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An analytical instrument comprises a first mass filter and a mass filter arranged downstream of the first mass filter. A method of operating the instrument comprises operating the first mass filter in a first mode of operation in which the first mass filter transmits ions having mass-to-charge ratios within a first mass-to-charge ratio (m/z) win...