US Patent Issued to SHIMADZU on Dec. 16 for "Analysis method, peptide antioxidizing agent for use in MAKK spectrometry and kit for use in mass spectrometry" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,380, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Analysis method, peptide antioxidizing agent for use in MAKK spectrometry and kit for use in mass spectrometry" was invented by Naoki Kaneko (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An analysis method includes: preparing a sample containing peptide to be analyzed and an antioxidizing agent for preventing oxidation of methionine, the antioxidizing agent containing a protein, ionizing the peptide by laser desorption/ionization; and mass-separating and detecting the peptide that has been ionized."

The patent was filed on Jan. 28, 2019, under Application No. 16/...