US Patent Issued to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Homeland Security on July 29 for "Fragmentation resilience energy mass spectrometry (FREMS)" (Rhode Island, Connecticut, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,537, issued on July 29, was assigned to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Homeland Security (Washington).

"Fragmentation resilience energy mass spectrometry (FREMS)" was invented by Jimmie Oxley (Narragansett, R.I.), James L. Smith (Narragansett, R.I.), Alexander Yevdokimov (Norwich, Conn.) and Kevin Colizza (Collegeville, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples are directed toward collecting, by a LC-MS device, a full scan of ion chromatograms of a sample. The LC-MS device determines observed ions contained in the full scan, based on mass-to-charge ratios (m/z), and determines, fo...