ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,733, issued on June 9, was assigned to Thermo Fisher Scientific (Bremen) GmbH (Bremen, Germany).

"High-dynamic range scans (partitioning method)" was invented by Christian Thoing (Bremen, Germany), Alexander Makarov (Bremen, Germany) and Denis Chernyshev (Bremen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for acquiring mass spectral data of a sample across at least a portion of an m/z range include receiving mass spectral data of the sample across the m/z range. The m/z range is partitioned into one or more sets of m/z sub-ranges, each set comprising one or more m/z sub-ranges, by dividing the m/z range into a plurality of m/z bin...