US Patent Issued to Thermo Fisher Scientific (Bremen) on Oct. 20 for "Hybrid mass spectrometer and data acquisition methods" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,849, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Thermo Fisher Scientific (Bremen) GmbH (Bremen, Germany).

"Hybrid mass spectrometer and data acquisition methods" was invented by Hamish Stewart (Bremen, Germany), Christian Hock (Bremen, Germany) and Philipp Cochems (Bremen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dual analyser mass spectrometer obtains MS1/MS2 scans of positive and negative ions by: operating an ion source and processing region at a first polarity; performing, by a first mass analyser (FMA) at the first polarity, MS1 or MS2 scan(s); switching polarity of the FMA to a second polarity; performing, by a second mass analyser (SM...