ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,620,568, issued on May 5, was assigned to Thermo Fisher Scientific (Bremen) GmbH (Bremen, Germany).

"Analysing a field of a mass spectrometer" was invented by Markus Pfeifer (Bremen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of analysing a field of a mass spectrometer comprising a mass analyser and a static field mass filter having a first Wien filter and a second Wien filter is provided. The method includes, for each of a plurality of predetermined strengths of one of an electric field or a magnetic field of the first and second Wien filters: setting the one of the electric field or the magnetic field of the first and second Wien fi...