US Patent Issued to TRUEMASS on Oct. 20 for "Mass spectrometer and method" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,848, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to TRUEMASS LTD (High Peak, Great Britain).

"Mass spectrometer and method" was invented by John Hoyes (High Peak, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of discriminating noise, the method implemented by a computer comprising a processor and a memory, the method comprising: obtaining a time-domain signal representative of a charge induced in an inductive charge detector by an ion moving in a charge-detection mass spectrometer, CDMS; transforming the time-domain signal into a frequency-domain spectrum comprising a series of frequency-amplitude pairs; and rejecting a particular freque...