US Patent Issued to Purdue Research Foundation on Oct. 14 for "Sample quantitation using a miniature mass spectrometer" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,592, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.).

"Sample quantitation using a miniature mass spectrometer" was invented by Zheng Ouyang (West Lafayette, Ind.), Linfan Li (West Lafayette, Ind.) and Xiaoyu Zhou (West Lafayette, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention generally relates to sample analysis with a miniature mass spectrometer. In certain embodiments, the invention provides methods that involve generating ions of a first analyte and ions of a second analyte. Those ions are transferred through a discontinuous sample introduction interface into a first ion trap of a mass spec...