US Patent Issued to Thermo Fisher Scientific (Bremen) on Feb. 3 for "Determining an expected response of a mass spectrometer" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,267, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Thermo Fisher Scientific (Bremen) GmbH (Bremen, Germany).

"Determining an expected response of a mass spectrometer" was invented by Henning Wehrs (Bremen, Germany) and Joachim Hinrichs (Bremen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of determining an expected response to injecting a beam of ions of a species of interest into a static field mass filter of a mass spectrometer including a mass analyser is provided. The method includes: measuring an intensity of ions injected into the static field mass filter for various combinations of test ion species, test magnetic field strengths, and te...