US Patent Issued to SHIMADZU on Oct. 7 for "Time-of-flight mass spectrometer and tuning method for the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,982, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Time-of-flight mass spectrometer and tuning method for the same" was invented by Kosuke Uchiyama (Kyoto, Japan) and Tomoyuki Oshiro (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a TOFMS having a measurement unit in which target ions are accelerated and sent into a flight space within which an electric field for causing ions to fly is created. A data-analysis processor (33) creates a spectrum based on data acquired by the measurement unit, where the spectrum shows a relationship between ion intensity and time-of-flight or m/z value. An index calculator (3...