ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,355, issued on Dec. 9.
"Method and device for the quantification of target ion species" was invented by Oliver Rather (Lilienthal, Germany) and Karsten Michelmann (Bremen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method and device for the mass spectrometric quantification of two or more known target ion species, in which a mass spectrometric signal, composed of signal components of the two or more target ion species, which are not mass resolved in the mass spectrum, is weighted with quantification functions and summed, and a quantification parameter is determined for the two or more target ion species from the weighted su...