ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,345, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Mass spectrometry method and mass spectrometer" was invented by Kengo Takeshita (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mass spectrometry method using a mass spectrometer 1 including a first moving mechanism 151 configured to move a sample stage 14 in a first direction in a plane parallel to the sample stage 14 and a second moving mechanism 152 configured to move the first moving mechanism 151 in a second direction different from the first direction in a plane parallel to the sample stage 14. The mass spectrometry method causes an irradiation point of ex...