ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,583, issued on June 3, was assigned to Sapient Bioanalytics LLC (San Diego).

"Extracting mass spectrometry data using mass and retention time windows" was invented by Mohit Jain (San Diego), Saumya Tiwari (San Diego) and Jeramie Watrous (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for obtaining raw mass spectrometry data from samples and generating an image representation of the mass spectrometry data. The image representation illustrates frequencies of occurrence of respective signals across the samples. A portion of the mass spectrometry data is obtained or extracted based on the frequencies. This porti...