ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,097, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to DH Technologies Development Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Identification of a first sample in a series of sequential samples" was invented by David M. Cox (Toronto), Chang Liu (Richmond Hill, Canada) and Stephen A. Tate (Barrie, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ADE device identifies an identifiable sequence of one or more ejections from at least one sample using a different value or pattern of values for one or more ADE parameters. The identifiable one or more ejections are performed to produce one or more mass peaks that have a different feature value or pattern of feature values for one or ...