ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,073, issued on June 24, was assigned to Thermo Finnigan LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Data acquisition workflows for scientific instrument support systems" was invented by Jenny S. Berryhill (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Stephane Houel (Hillsboro, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are scientific instrument support systems, as well as related methods, computing devices, and computer-readable media. For example, in some embodiments, a method is provided that includes receiving a first plurality of experiment parameters for a first experiment to be performed by a scientific instrument on a first sample, the first plurality of expe...