US Patent Issued to Thermo Fisher Scientific (Bremen) on Feb. 18 for "Determining the average frequency of a series of pulses" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,230,487, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Thermo Fisher Scientific (Bremen) GmbH (Bremen, Germany).

"Determining the average frequency of a series of pulses" was invented by Leanne Verster (Bremen, Germany) and Jonas Pistor (Bremen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and device for determining an average frequency of a series of ion detection pulses (P) in a spectrometer can be applied to a measurement interval (MI). The method may comprise determining the duration of an auxiliary interval (AI1, AI2.. ), wherein the auxiliary interval overlaps the measurement interval, the auxiliary interval starts at the last pulse (P0) p...