ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,249, issued on June 24, was assigned to Micromass UK Ltd. (Wilmslow, Great Britain).

"Automatically standardising spectrometers" was invented by Jason Lee Wildgoose (Stockport, Great Britain), Martin Raymond Green (Bowdon, Great Britain), Keith Richardson (High Peak, Great Britain), Daniel James Kenny (Knutsford, Great Britain), David Gordon (Middlewich, Great Britain) and Kate Whyatt (Sutton Weaver, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of mass spectrometry is disclosed comprising: a step (10) of analysing a reference compound in a first mass spectrometer and outputting mass spectral data in response thereto; a step ...