ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,861, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Thermo Finnigan LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for controlling an ion mobility separator based on a hadamard algorithm" was invented by Brian D. Adamson (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pulse control system may obtain, for each ion pulse included in a plurality of ion pulses, a signal acquired by a mass analyzer for ions ejected from a distinct set of channels of an ion mobility separator having a plurality of channels and determine, based on the signals for the plurality of ion pulses and a Hadamard algorithm, a signal associated with the ions ejected from a cha...