ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,536, issued on July 29, was assigned to Thermo Fisher Scientific (Bremen) GmbH (Bremen, Germany).
"Methods and apparatus for mass spectrometry" was invented by Denis Chernyshev (Bremen, Germany), Nicolaie Eugen Damoc (Bremen, Germany), Christian Thoeing (Bremen, Germany), Jen-Peter Hauschild (Bremen, Germany) and Alexander Makarov (Bremen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and system of mass spectrometry is provided. The method comprises performing a first and a second MS1 scans on precursor ions produced by ionising a sample. The first MS1 scan comprises mass analysing a first set of the precursor ions transported to a m...