US Patent Issued to Waters Technologies on Feb. 4 for "Methods to increase sensitivity of LC/MS analysis" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,034, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Waters Technologies Corp. (Milford, Mass.).

"Methods to increase sensitivity of LC/MS analysis" was invented by Paul Rainville (Princeton, Mass.) and Kerri Smith (Marlborough, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure discusses a method of separating a sample (e.g., pharmaceutical drug, genotoxic impurity, biomarker, and/or biological metabolite) including coating a metallic flow path of a chromatographic system; injecting the sample into the chromatographic system; flowing the sample through the chromatographic system; separating the sample; and analyzing the separated sample u...