US Patent Issued to Agilent Technologies on Dec. 16 for "Characterizing quadrupole transmitting window in mass spectrometers" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,074, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Agilent Technologies Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Characterizing quadrupole transmitting window in mass spectrometers" was invented by Kai Chen (Shanghai), Kenneth R. Newton (Concord, Calif.) and Christian Wisner-Carlson (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A quadrupole transmitting window applied by a quadrupole mass filter is characterized by a method that utilizes the noise band of a transmitted chemical noise ion signal. The mass filter may be utilized in a mass spectrometry (MS) system."

The patent was filed on April 26, 2022, under Application No. 17/730,032.

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