US Patent Issued on Jan. 28 for "Method and system to align the firing of a laser ablation apparatus with the cyclic measurement periods of a mass-spectrometer" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,683, issued on Jan. 28.

"Method and system to align the firing of a laser ablation apparatus with the cyclic measurement periods of a mass-spectrometer" was invented by Nicholas Russell West (Evatt, Australia) and Charles Ashley Norris (Kignston, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a system for aligning the firing of a laser-ablation apparatus to a signal or property of an inductively-coupled-plasma mass-spectrometer apparatus. At least one kind of input unit that receives timing data from the mass-spectrometer and isolates the system. A processor configured to translate the mass cycle of the mass-spectr...