US Patent Issued to Venn Biosciences on Oct. 28 for "Automated detection of boundaries in mass spectrometry data" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,544, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Venn Biosciences Corp. (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Automated detection of boundaries in mass spectrometry data" was invented by Daniel Serie (San Mateo, Calif.) and Zhenqin Wu (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for automated detection of the presence or absence of a quantity based on intensities expressed in terms of, or derived from frequency time dependent data. According to one example intensities from mass spectrometry are identified using a non-linear mathematical model, such as an artificial neural network trained to find start and stop peaks of an i...