ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,499, issued on March 11, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Imaging mass spectrometer" was invented by Shinichi Yamaguchi (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging mass spectrometer includes an analysis executing section that executes MSn analysis for a target component on each of a plurality of micro regions set within a two-dimensional measurement region on a sample to collect data; an ion selecting section that selects a plurality of kinds of product ions derived from, or assumed to be derived from, the target component based on at least a part of the data collected by the analysis executing section; an...