ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,664, issued on July 1.

"Processing of spatially resolved, ion-spectrometric measurement signal data to determine molecular content scores in two-dimensional samples" was invented by Tobias Boskamp (Worpswede, Germany) and Dennis Trede (Bremen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to methods for processing ion-spectrometric measurement signal data which are recorded spatially resolved across a two-dimensional sample, comprising: -providing the measurement signal data which have a plurality of measurement signal histograms, where a histogram contains a measurement signal tuple with intensity dimension (J), mass d...