US Patent Issued to The Texas A&M University System on Oct. 21 for "On-demand electrochemical reactions in nano-electrospray ionization mass spectrometry for biomolecular analysis" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,428, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to The Texas A&M University System (College Station, Texas).

"On-demand electrochemical reactions in nano-electrospray ionization mass spectrometry for biomolecular analysis" was invented by Xin Yan (College Station, Texas), Shuli Tang (College Station, Texas) and Heyong Cheng (College Station, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for identifying a structural feature of a lipid include: (a) conducting at least one voltage-controlled electrochemical reaction that converts the lipid to a first derivatized lipid; and (b) fragmenting the first derivatized lipid to generate at least one diagnos...