ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,340, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to DH Technologies Development Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Method for real time encoding of scanning swath data and probabilistic framework for precursor inference" was invented by Nic G. Bloomfield (Newmarket, Canada) and Gordana Ivosev (Etobicoke, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A precursor ion transmission window is moved in overlapping steps across a precursor ion mass range. The precursor ions transmitted at each overlapping step by the mass filter are fragmented or transmitted. Intensities or counts are detected for each of the one or more resulting product ions or precursor ions for each ...