US Patent Issued to Thermo Finnigan on Feb. 18 for "Operating a mass spectrometer utilizing mass spectral database search" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,577, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Thermo Finnigan LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Operating a mass spectrometer utilizing mass spectral database search" was invented by Derek J. Bailey (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Real-time search (RTS) for mass spectrometry is described. In one aspect, a mass spectrometer can identify a candidate peptide for a product ion spectrum by searching a mass spectral database. While executing the search of the mass spectral database, the elapsed search time can be monitored. If the elapsed search time of the identification of the candidate peptide is completed before reaching a maximum va...