US Patent Issued to Waters Technologies Ireland on Dec. 16 for "Method of calibrating a mass spectrometer" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,073, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Waters Technologies Ireland Ltd. (Dublin).

"Method of calibrating a mass spectrometer" was invented by Maria Gaffney-Lovett (Dublin) and Richard Denny (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "We provide a method of assessing an acquired mass spectrum, the method including the steps of: obtaining a model isotope pattern for a chemical compound of known elemental composition, providing mass spectrum data obtained from a mass spectrometer in analysis of the chemical compound, and performing location matching by comparing the mass spectrum data to the isotope pattern to match a reference location in ...