ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,984, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Thermo Fisher Scientific (Bremen) GmbH (Bremen, Germany).

"Ion accumulation control for analytical instrument" was invented by Hamish Stewart (Bremen, Germany), Alexander Makarov (Bremen, Germany), Konstantin Ayzikov (Bremen, Germany), Dmitry Grinfeld (Bremen, Germany), Kyle Fort (Bremen, Germany), Tabiwang Arrey (Bremen, Germany) and Matthias Biel (Bremen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating an instrument which comprises a first and second ion stores, comprising determining whether a target accumulation time for the second ion store is greater than a threshold accumulati...