US Patent Issued to Leidos on March 25 for "Low-power mass interrogation system and assay for determining vitamin D levels" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,032, issued on March 25, was assigned to Leidos Inc. (Reston, Va.).

"Low-power mass interrogation system and assay for determining vitamin D levels" was invented by Noah Peter Christian (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A low power mass spectrometer assembly includes at least an ionization component, an electrostatic analyzer, a lens assembly, a magnet assembly and at least one detector located in a same plane as the entrance to the magnet assembly for detecting the deflected sample ions and/or fragments of sample ions, including ions or ion fragments indicative of the Vitamin D metabolite within the sample."

The patent was...