US Patent Issued to Waters Technologies Ireland on June 17 for "Techniques for sample analysis using product ion collision-cross section information" (British, Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,210, issued on June 17, was assigned to Waters Technologies Ireland Ltd. (Dublin).

"Techniques for sample analysis using product ion collision-cross section information" was invented by Russell Julian Mortishire-Smith (Macclesfield, Great Britain), Hans Vissers (Breda, Netherlands) and Michael McCullagh (Northwich, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and apparatus for determining atomic-level configurations of product ions are described. In some embodiments, product ion CCS information may be used to determine substructural configurations of product ions, such as isomers. For example, in one embodiment, an apparat...