US Patent Issued to WATERS TECHNOLOGIES on March 4 for "Techniques for mass spectrometry peak list computation using parallel processing" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,731, issued on March 4, was assigned to WATERS TECHNOLOGIES Corp. (Milford, Mass.).

"Techniques for mass spectrometry peak list computation using parallel processing" was invented by Jose De Corral (Grafton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are techniques for processing data. Sample analysis is performed generating scans of data. Each scan comprises a set of data elements each associating an ion intensity count with a plurality of dimensions including a retention time dimension and a mass to charge ratio dimension. The scans are analyzed to identify one or more ion peaks. Analyzing includes filtering a first plurality o...