US Patent Issued to METABOLON on June 17 for "Method for determining small molecule components of a complex mixture, and associated apparatus and computer program product" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,225, issued on June 17, was assigned to METABOLON INC. (Morrisville, N.C.).

"Method for determining small molecule components of a complex mixture, and associated apparatus and computer program product" was invented by Rex Allen Dwyer (Raleigh, N.C.), Elizaveta Freinkman (Cary, N.C.) and Anne M. Evans (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data analysis method for a component separation/tandem mass spectrometer system, including first and second MS steps which data therefrom includes respective sample components (MS1-SC, MS2-SC), includes analyzing per sample a data set for MS2-SC to determine mass-to-charge ratio and retention...