ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,980, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Sapient Bioanalytics LLC (San Diego).

"Mass spectrometry retrieving of stray samples" 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, generating an image representation from the raw mass spectrometry data, selecting a portion of the signals corresponding to the image representation, inputting the selected portion into a machine learning model to determine or infer an existence or an absence of signals within respective retention ti...